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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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to mail the postcards. He said just to leave it with
him -- that the mail truck came by twice a week and picked up the mail. He
was also curious about the price of petrol in the States, and mentioned that
the high price in Australia is due, in large part, to all the taxes placed
on petrol. He was proud to tell me that his prices were the lowest around
(and indeed, they were).
In many of the towns along the route north, the old, original telegraph
buildings that played an intregal part of settling the interior of the
country still survive. Most are museums now, and many of them have bloody
histories, as Aboriginals and whites fought around them years ago. I turned
off to see one, about 16km outside of Tennant Creek. It was too early in
the morning for it to be open, but the building was still standing. Just
driving around (off of the highway) exploring a bit, I came to a small,
empty schoolhouse (the kids were on summer break), and in the middle of
nowhere, found the cheapest soda machine in all Australia in front of that
school -- A$1 for a can of soda.

Back on the Stuart Highway driving north, I came to Renner Springs around
noon. Renner Springs is the city that is the supposed dividing line between
two very different climatic areas of Australia -- the hot, dry, arid central
outback, and the wet, humid north. And sure enough, it was. For the entire
time I had been in central Australia, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, but
as I drove north, I began to notice clouds ahead of me -- and just about the
time I reached Renner Springs, the clouds were above me.
As you drive further north, the land's characteristics change too. In
the center of Australia, all there is to see for miles around is the flat,
red earth, with some scrub brush or spinifex grass here and there. But the
further north you go, the greener ...

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