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	<title>Stewed Thoughts &#187; Australian Odyssey &#8211; Nov 2008</title>
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	<description>Some random thoughts, gently stewed, served on a bed of love</description>
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		<title>Day 19: Darwin zoos</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/414/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a spare day in Darwin before I flew back to Brisbane. I checked out a few zoos around the place.
Crocosaurus Cove

	
Crocosaurus Cove sign



	
Crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Overhead view of Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 18: Fogg Dam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After leaving Kakadu, we drove north towards Humpty Doo, the town closest to Fogg Dam. We arrived in the late afternoon.

	
The sign at the entrance to the Fogg Dam Conservation Park.


In the 1950s Fogg Dam was constructed in the western part of the Adelaide River floodplain for the Humpty Doo Rice Project. The agricultural project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 16 &amp; 17: Kakadu</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/days-16-17-kakadu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our way from Mt Isa we stopped at Elsey National Park. I had wanted to find some water monitors (both Mertens&#8217; and Mitchell&#8217;s water monitors are known from the area), but had no luck on this front. We did manage to find some frogs and some skinks.

	
Varanus mertensi &#038; Varanus mitchelli habitat (supposedly).



	
Litoria meiriana


	
Carlia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 14 &amp; 15: Mt Isa and Daly Waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove from Undara to Mt Isa, arriving in the late afternoon. We got a room at the local caravan park, then headed out onto the roads. We only found one animal, but it was an interesting one. We found this pygmy mulga snake (Pseudechis weigeli/Pseudechis &#8216;pailsus&#8216;) on the side of the road. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13: Undara Volcanic National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-13-undara-volcanic-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chillagoe we headed to Undara Volcanic National Park. Undara wasn&#8217;t a planned stop, but we were in the area and I&#8217;d heard good things about Undara. I was surprised to find that the only way you can access the national park is to go on a (relatively expensive) tour with the Undara Experience people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 12: Chillagoe</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-12-chillagoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we left the Atherton Tablelands, we stopped at Granite Gorge to see some cute little Mareeba rock wallabies (Petrogale mareeba). We saw a few frilled dragons (Chlamydosaurus kingii) run off the road. One ran up a tree, while the other ran up a termite mound.

	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).



	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).


	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).


	
Mareeba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 9 to 11: Atherton Tablelands</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/atherton-tablelands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Tully, we headed to the Atherton Tablelands. We spend three nights there, during which time we saw a ton of stuff. We went to:
Millaa Millaa Falls, Malanda Falls, the Curtain Fig, Lake Barrine, Wooranooran National Park, Mobo Creek Crater, Chambers Eco-Lodge, Yungaburra.
Here are pictures in random order. You can click on the pic to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8: Tully Gorge</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-8-tully-gorge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Charters Towers and headed back to the coast and up to Tully. We arrived mid-afternoon and went for a short walk to see what we could see. Down by the river I saw a little head peeking out of a hole in a tree stump. I waited patiently for the body to emerge.

	
Saproscincus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 7: Charters Towers</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-7-charters-towers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day seven saw us heading inland, from The Caves on the coast, through Emerald and up to Charters Towers. It was mainly a driving day, but we did find some roadkill along the way. We got some rooms at the Charters Towers pub and then headed out for a night drive.

	
Roadkilled lesser black whipsnake (Demansia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 6: The Caves</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-6-the-caves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day six saw us heading from Girraween to the small township of The Caves, just north of Rockhampton. We camped at a campground there, where I discovered that the tent I had brought with me lacked any tent poles. Good work, Stewart.
In the morning we spent a few minutes poking around an area of limestone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 4 &amp; 5 &#8211; Girraween National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/days-4-5-girraween-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: if you&#8217;ve seen the 2009 ReptilesDownUnder.com calendar, you might recognise some pictures here.
We left The Warrumbungles in the morning and drove up to Girraween National Park, just across the border in Queensland. Despite it being quite close to my home town of Brisbane, and despite it being well known for its high reptile diversity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 2 &amp; 3 &#8211; Warrumbungle National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/11/days-2-3-warrumbungle-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Mudgee and headed towards Warrumbungle National Park. Along the way we saw an eastern long-necked turtle on the side of the road.

	




Eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis). She was alive on the road. We moved her off (after looking at her plastron to confirm her ID).

Eventually we arrived at the park.

	
Warrumbungle National Park welcomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 &#8211; Sydney to Mudgee</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/11/day-1-sydney-to-mudgee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I embarked on an Australian odyssey. I met a friend of mine, Richard Reams, at Sydney Airport and we headed off to pick up our rental car. After getting lost in Sydney for about an hour, we finally made it out of the city and into the Blue Mountains. It was quite an overcast [...]]]></description>
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