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Dangles
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Okay. I've never been to the desert and for some reason I've always wanted to go to one. Maybe it was because of that song by America? Anywho, can anyone suggest a good place to stay in Australia that's located in or near a desert?
*I thought I'd call this the Holidays & Travel thread so in future people could use it to ask questions or pass on information relating to holidays and travel. |
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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I think RB (Rude Boy) has great experience of travelling in the Aussie desert mate. Hopefully he sees this thread and replies to you. _________________ Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine! |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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Come over to WA. I'm at work in the desert rite now. 160ks north of Meekatharra.
It's pretty awesome this time of year (beat the heat that starts in about 4 weeks). Amazing sunrises/sunsets. I run on tracks after work, 10 or so k's from the camp, do some breathing excercises and meditation as the sun goes down. Let out a loud scream and everything goes silent, not a sound. It's magic👍 _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Skids wrote: | Come over to WA. I'm at work in the desert rite now. 160ks north of Meekatharra.
It's pretty awesome this time of year (beat the heat that starts in about 4 weeks). Amazing sunrises/sunsets. I run on tracks after work, 10 or so k's from the camp, do some breathing excercises and meditation as the sun goes down. Let out a loud scream and everything goes silent, not a sound. It's magic |
Sounds like a bloody great way of dealing with our frustrations with Collingwood this year!!! _________________ Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine! |
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Dangles
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Skids wrote: | Come over to WA. I'm at work in the desert rite now. 160ks north of Meekatharra.
It's pretty awesome this time of year (beat the heat that starts in about 4 weeks). Amazing sunrises/sunsets. I run on tracks after work, 10 or so k's from the camp, do some breathing excercises and meditation as the sun goes down. Let out a loud scream and everything goes silent, not a sound. It's magic👍 |
Sounds great. I'd like to go in the cooler months of June and July, so I'll probably aim to go next year. Can't really make it happen in the next few weeks. The stillness and the silence is what I'm looking forward to. |
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partypie
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Friends of mine are camping at Lake Ballard, near Menzies, near Kalgoorlie and loving the desert before it gets too hot.lake Ballard is a large salt lake and there are fantastic sculptures by Anthony Gormley based on the people who live in the area. It is also a great time to see the fantastic windflowers Western Australia is known for. I live in the south west and the air is full of beautiful scents and the bush is coming alive with colour. |
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HAL
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Where in Holland? |
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Tannin
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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think positive
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Death Valley is pretty cool! Well it's warm actually, but a grous place! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Dangles
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Nice pictures, Tannin. I'm at work at the moment, so I only had a quick look but I'll have a good look when I get home. Someone at work mentioned the Little Desert in Victoria. Is that worth checking out? |
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Tannin
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The Little Desert is a great place, Dangles, but it's not actually a desert. It gets the same rainfall as all of the surrounding wheat growing country - places like Horsham for example. Most of western Victoria is ancient sea bottom. The Little Desert is an area where the currents and winds (as the sea dried out) happened to produce especially sandy soil. (It's well to the west and bordering on the South Australian limestone country - hence the pure white sand. Compare with the red, orange and brown sands further east and north.) So, although it gets the same rainfall, it has different vegetation structure because of the very low soil fertility. It's no good for cropping and it looks a bit like a desert, hence the name. Round about right now is the time to be there: the wildflowers are brilliant!
Sadly, no Little Desert wildflowers on this page. I really must attend to that! http://tannin.net.au/browsestate.php?state=1&substate=2
Summary: lovely place, but not an actual desert. For desert in Victoria, look further north. Depending on how remote you want to go (4DW only for much of it), the Sunset Country is great. And huge!. Wyperfeld is justly famous - you can work your way down the remains of the ancient dying Wimmera River system - and Hattah provides a wonderful contrasting mix of Murray River floodplain and semi-desert dunes side by side. Mungo (further north in NSW) is another good one. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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Melton _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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Dangles
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watt price tully wrote: | Melton |
Good name for a desert: Melt-on |
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Actually Bacchus Marsh is the hottest place in Victoria because it is always close to Melton.......... _________________ Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine! |
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John Wren
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
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Skids wrote: | Come over to WA. I'm at work in the desert rite now. 160ks north of Meekatharra.
It's pretty awesome this time of year (beat the heat that starts in about 4 weeks). Amazing sunrises/sunsets. I run on tracks after work, 10 or so k's from the camp, do some breathing excercises and meditation as the sun goes down. Let out a loud scream and everything goes silent, not a sound. It's magic👍 |
the leyland brothers once went there, didn't they? _________________ Purveyor of sanctimonious twaddle. |
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