Well here we are at that place made immortal by that Jam song "A town called malice" As is usual on our trip it was an early start and Taz once again was in evidence. We first went to The School of Air where, via teachers in Alice Springs and the tinterweb , children in the outback are given lessons from ages 4 to 16. They cover an area of 1.3 million square km and there are only 122 children to teach! Not much chance of a randy teenager meeting a partner out there!
Then it was off to the Telegraph Station, the first thing here.....somehow in 1875 ish they managed to cross the continent with telegraph poles. ......probably had better Internet connection then than the crap here at the moment.
Finally it was to the Flying Doctors who risked life and limb to fly out to remote places treating the sick.
After a brief return to the hotel it was out to see Kangaroo Dundee. ...apparently he has been on TV in the UK. ....here he rescues orphaned roos whose mums have either been killed by the Aborigines or hit by cars.....It was a moving and uplifting place......The rescued roos are put into a shopping bag and he keeps them with him to mimic their time in the pouch. When grown up they are released back into the wild. INTERESTING FACT NO 36.........There are over 50 million wild kangaroos in Australia and they are reproducing so quickly that they have to cull 5 million a year to keep down numbers which is why Lidl now has a lot of roo steaks in their freezer department.
ps. ..pictures to come soon hopefully
Then it was off to the Telegraph Station, the first thing here.....somehow in 1875 ish they managed to cross the continent with telegraph poles. ......probably had better Internet connection then than the crap here at the moment.
Finally it was to the Flying Doctors who risked life and limb to fly out to remote places treating the sick.
After a brief return to the hotel it was out to see Kangaroo Dundee. ...apparently he has been on TV in the UK. ....here he rescues orphaned roos whose mums have either been killed by the Aborigines or hit by cars.....It was a moving and uplifting place......The rescued roos are put into a shopping bag and he keeps them with him to mimic their time in the pouch. When grown up they are released back into the wild. INTERESTING FACT NO 36.........There are over 50 million wild kangaroos in Australia and they are reproducing so quickly that they have to cull 5 million a year to keep down numbers which is why Lidl now has a lot of roo steaks in their freezer department.
ps. ..pictures to come soon hopefully
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