Woomera to Adelaide, 12-5-07
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The Woomera Immigrant Detention Center (for Rapier?) was closed after a short time after some riots, protests, and escapes. -
Woomera Observatory
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Woomera Observatory
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Downtown Woomera - Merry Christmas!
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Netball goal -- girls' basketball
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Missile Park
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This is at the nose of the HAD rocket.
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I think I could build one of these.
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The first Australian Satellite.
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Remains of the first stage
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Remains of the first stage
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Remains of the first stage
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About the town. There used to be a few thousand people living in Woomera. Now there are about 380. But the housing, etc. is still maintained. It's a pretty nice place. It's administered by the Ministry of Defence.
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Rocket control, 1960's.
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Fossils
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That is a nice vacuum tube.
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Someone lost a U-Joint on the side of the road.
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Electric tower
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Tree
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Water in the desert.
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These duck have big bills.
Pink-eared Duck
Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Black swans and white birds (cockatoos?)
Little Corella
Cacatua sanguinea
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Black swans
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Ducks
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Ducks and a swan
Gray Teal
Anas gracilis
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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A bird.
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Two birds
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Four birds. Galahs, I think.
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Four birds. Gallahs, I think.
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Corella
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Corella
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How many types of birds are in this picture?
Pied Stilt
Himantopus leucocephalus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Long legged water birds.
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Silver Gull
Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Pied Stilt
Himantopus leucocephalus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Masked Lapwing (Black-shouldered)
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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Masked Lapwing (Black-shouldered)
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
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The dark rocks are welded to the light rocks.
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Roxby Downs. The houses are new, and no houses are available. the Olympia Dam mine has made the town (6,500 people) a boomtown. -
The mine. -
The mine. -
That round rock to the left of my foot looks almost like glass. -
A cave. -
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Rental car agreement may have said something about paved roads, but I don't remember. -
Diamonds! -
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Wheat! Civilization! I made it from the north ocean to the south ocean. -
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Black-Shouldered Kite -