This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise After a short flight, we landed in Alice Springs — almost the geographic center of Australia. Of course, I was a bit shocked as we were making our approach to hear the pilot say, “and off on our right is the super secret…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Broome was as far west as we would go on this trip, so it was time to start winging our way back to the east, flying over the Gibson Desert towards the Red Center of Australia and Uluru, the world’s largest monolith. Looking…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise From Katherine, we actually took a bus the short distance to Cooinda, the gateway to Kakadu National Park. Once again, we were pleased to see mostly Aboriginal people working in the hotels and tourist concessions. In fact, they managed the property where we…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise The next morning we were on our way to Katherine, Northern Territory. On the way, we visited a working outback cattle station named Longway to see first hand what is involved in running a property in the outback. The couple that ran the…
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