The equipment on the right is for our trip and on the left for our flight to Israel
In the end – everything fitted into the car
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After a few intensive weeks of finishing up work, saying goodbyes and packing, we are on our way. The plan is a trip from Townsville to Adelaide and then Melbourne (~4000 km), from where we fly to Israel on August 14
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The equipment on the right is for our trip and on the left for our flight to Israel |
In the end – everything fitted into the car
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We spent the last few days at our friends Moran and Chris. They took great care of us and helped us a lot. The kids also loved sleeping over at Sam and Charlie's
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On the last night, Moran and Maayan did a farewell ride from Townsville on Chris’s Harley |
Last day of school |
The first destination of our trip was “dinosaur country” where many fossils of dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles were found. The highlight was "Lark’s Quarry" where fossilized foot prints of a stampede of small dinosaurs on the run from a large carnivore dinosaur were discovered
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We also went to “the Age of Dinosaurs”, a museum founded by local farmers that had had enough of scientists taking away their dinosaur bones. They put up an excavating team and a lab to clean and preserve the fossils and present a fascinating exhibition of the two main dinosaurs found in this area: Banjo and Matilda
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We continued south through one of the most isolated areas in Australia, a true outback! Towns in this area do not get many visitors and need to “invent themselves” to convince people to stay overnight
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A musical fence |
Searching for opal stones – at the entrance to a shop |
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Of course another reason to stay is if your keys are locked inside the car. We had to wait for two hours until help came from the nearest town
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Although some of the “attractions” are a bit pathetic, some were pretty amazing. For example, in the observatory in Charlleville, we looked at sun-spots and sun-flares through the telescope in the day, and at star formations at night. We even saw Saturn with its rings
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Apart from the attractions, we went on several hikes and observed lots of birds and of course kangaroos and wallabies
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Despite the cold- it’s the middle of winter- we’ve been camping, enjoying the outback atmosphere, while Zoe's been enjoying encounters with dogs. Moran, who has some deadlines, had to work in the mornings in front of the bonfire
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Next destination: the Flinders Range in South Australia