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What are your most haunting moments?

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Hi,

what were your best or worst moments on your journey across Australia?

I begin this topic with one of my experiences:

Well, a trip like this is overall emotional. An other event than that mentioned birthday celebration was the traveling at the Oodnadatta Track.
This track is a dusty street a few kilometers east of the Stuart Highway in the southern part of Australia. It is no tourist attraction. You find tourists once in a blue moon. This is not amazing because it is no demontration area. We as travellers did not plan to drive this way but extrem weather caused us to take the Oodnadatta Track as an alernative route.
A long part of the Oodnadatte Track is escort by the Old Ghan Railway, a railway closed in the early 1980 years. As a witness of history you find there ruins of lost towns and villages. Doomed by time. Useless. Ghosttowns, living its time of prosperity a log time ago with the help of the railway.

Image1 und image2 are examples of the lost fight between the so called civilised population and the nature. The costs of maintanance were so high that the railway has to give up.

Arrestingly silence you find at these places.

This location - not interested for tourists - affected me very much.
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Post by laurenz »

the most haunting moments? One of them would definitely be diving the Great barrier reef.
Thoroughly beautiful and a completely different world.
Especially diving there at night time.

Other haunting moments were seeing hundreds of kangaroos near Darwin,
and a rainbow over the Sydney Opera house as well as listening to the sounds of the wild in Kakadu National park.

Laurenz

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