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Category: New South Wales

December 31, 2018December 5, 2020History Out There

The secret of the church minister’s granddaughter

November 7, 2018November 16, 2018History Out There

Where will you be this Armistice Day?

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018History Out There

In the footsteps of a hero

September 8, 2018September 9, 2018History Out There

There’s still ghosts at old Dalmorton

August 17, 2018January 10, 2021History Out There

This Tommy Dodd has seen it all

August 11, 2018August 11, 2018History Out There

You won’t believe these furphies

Descendants of massacre survivors
June 17, 2018June 19, 2020History Out There

Myall Creek, the massacre that will never die

April 29, 2018April 24, 2020History Out There

You will be amazed by your local Anzac Parade

January 26, 2017January 21, 2024History Out There

Captain Phillip’s 230th Australia Day

November 27, 2016April 7, 2018History Out There

Tiger Moth memories

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I’m visiting Muckadilla on the recommendation of an old Ipswich resident of over 100 years ago. Please follow the link on my profile for the story, "The Outback Bore that Sweated a Nation." Both Lucan and Leichhardt disappeared never to be seen again. Please Like, Follow and Share this story of the Darling Downs mystery connection via the link on my profile, "The Earl’s Cousin Who Lost Leichhardt." City people have been going to Darwin in the Northern Territory for 150 years for all sorts of reasons. Please follow the link on my profile for the story, "150 Years of Ipswich to Top End Adventure." Prior to heading out into the Timor Sea to my Tiwi Islands Hike for Health, I visited the Northern Territory’s Mary River which boasts the highest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in the world. It certainly delivered with crocodiles, water buffalo, and jabiru in abundance. Darwin in the Northern Territory is one of only 10 places in the world that you can see a Cold War era B52 bomber, and at almost 50 metres long, it’s absolutely enormous. You can even still see where the Cruise Missiles were attached. During the first bombing of Darwin on the 19th of February 1942, this Japanese Zero was shot down, its pilot captured by Tiwi Islander Mathias, and the wreckage is now here at the Darwin Aviation Museum. Camels were imported in greater numbers from the 1860s to assist with inland exploration, including the Burke & Wills expedition. Today Australia has the largest population of wild camels in the world, and in the Northern Territory I took a magical camel ride back through time as the sun set over the Timor Sea. Hard to beat when the Sun, Moon and Venus say goodnight together over the Timor Sea 🙂 On the 19th of February 1942, ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbour and four days after the fall of Singspore, the Japanese attack Australia and bomb Darwin for the first time. USS Peary is sunk for the US Navy's biggest loss of life in Australian waters. She goes down with guns blazing – this is one of those guns.

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My book “Dovercourt: Toowong’s Hidden Treasure and Its People”

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