http://bushtelegraph.blogsome.com Westerly News Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:45:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Alright blog, so you feel a little neglected. Our story abandoned up near the Gulf of Carpentaria. What? You started listening to My Chemical Romance? Huh, since when can a blog go Emo? And exactly when did the transformation of Goths into Emos occur? Shesh, at least Gothic rock gave ... http://bushtelegraph.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/r-to-the-k-via-the-oc/   And so it was, we left Tennant Creek and headed east along the Barkly Highway. This stretch of highway is one of the most isolated we came across in our circumnavigation of Australia – the only photos we took between Tennant Creek and Mt Isa tell of endless dry red ... http://bushtelegraph.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/the-return-to-the-maroon-state/ So apparently Mataranka is supposed to be a really awesome thermal pool, but at the risk of trampling on the hard work of the Australian Tourism Commission and Jeannine Gunn: the place is nothing short of a swamp in the wet season, although minus the familiar ‘swamp stank’ that would ... http://bushtelegraph.blogsome.com/2008/04/24/mataranka/ Okay, so we aren’t stuck in the top end. We are back in Brisneyland. But the story is left somewhere on the road between Kununurra and Katherine. The drive from Kununurra to Katherine was rather uneventful. By the time we got to the Victoria River it was well below the ... http://bushtelegraph.blogsome.com/2008/04/17/nitmiluk/