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Day TwoMelrose to Coward Springs via
Quorn
Hawker
Parachilna
Leigh Creek
Maree
Skirting Lake Eyre South
‘The flies kept eating into our eyes, which were already bad
enough. This seemed to be the only object for which these
wretches were invented and lived, and they also seemed to
be quite ready and willing to die, rather than desist a
moment from their occupation. Every little sore or wound on
the hands or face was covered by them in swarms; they
scorned to use their wings, they preferred walking to flying;
we might kill them in millions, yet other, and hungrier
millions would still come on, rejoicing in the death of their
predecessors – as they now had not only men’s eyes and
wounds to eat, but could batten upon the bodies of their
slaughtered friends.’ (Ernest Giles, 1876 - Australia Twice Traversed)
‘The dominant characteristics of natural Australian
scenery, are greyness, age, loneliness, stillness, and,
above all, peace. Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, are of
yesterday compared with the age-long sameness of our
great silent continent. The turmoil of history has passed
this land by. Before ever the mushroom growth of the
human race had sprung up, countless millions of suns had
arisen, shone upon the great desert disk of the interior; just
as it is today, and sunk in a blaze of red.’
(Cecil Madigan, 1939, (Simpson Desert),Crossing the Dead Heart)
In Case You Haven’t Heard!
Some of the natural wonders around ‘the Alice’
Ross River Gorge
Palm Valley
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