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• touring australia

  

  Touring Australia, from the beautiful coastline to the wonders of the outback with its iconic towns and pioneering spirit – it is a magical land. The Darling River, Outback NSW , Victoria’s Goldfields, the Wimmera are a some of the places that will inspire.

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• european travel
  

  Touring Europe by motorcycle is probably the best way to really experience much of what is on offer; especially France. Nurturing the creative spirit and challenging one-self by doing something that out of the ordinary make for a journey of a lifetime. All done on a majestic 2000 Triumph Adventurer.

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• Broken Hill

  Broken Hill Outback Australia

  Broken Hill, known as 'The Silver City', is the largest centre in Outback New South Wales and is often referred to as its “Jewel". Located 1,160 km from Sydney, the city came into existence in 1885 after Charles Rasp had recognized the mineral potential of the area two years earlier. Today the city sits on one of the world's largest known silver-lead-zinc lodes – a deposit which is 7 km long and over 220 metres wide.

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• Darling River Australia

  
  The Darling River, the iconic Australian river, meanders its way through NSW from its origins in Queensland's Darling Downs - via the Warrego and Culgoa Rivers - and from the northern NSW tributaries of Barwon, Gwydir, Namoi, Castlereagh and Bogan rivers. From north-eastern NSW, it flows down through the heart of outback NSW to the Victorian border at Wentworth where it meets the Murray River. Part of the Murray Darling Basin, which covers 1,061,469 square kilometres (14% of the total area of Australia), the Darling River is Australia's longest river flowing 2,739 km.

  The river has always been an integral part of indigenous culture and was named the Darling after being 'discovered' by explorer Charles Sturt in 1829 who named it in honour of Sir Ralph Darling - the then Governor of New South Wales.

  Outback NSW

  Darling River

  The persistent drought that gripped much of the Outback seems to be over, for now. To understand the boom/bust nature of this country is to understand Australia. 

  Over the years, many have written about the dynamic nature of this country, but Dorothea Mackellar is probably the most poignant:

  I love a sunburnt country,

  A land of sweeping plains,

  Of ragged mountain ranges,

  Of droughts and flooding rains.

  I love her far horizons,

  I love her jewel-sea,

  Her beauty and her terror –

  The wide brown land for me!
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