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Duncan Road birding

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Before we left home to go camping and birding in the northern area of the Kimberley we had a plan that once we got as far north as the Northern Territory we would return to Halls Creek, Western Australia, via the Duncan Road. Cattle truck and dust! They also believed it would not be too deep after a dry Wet Season.

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Layover in Singapore

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Let’s take Singapore’s Changi International Airport as an example; it is a huge hub airport with large numbers of people passing through in transit to Australia, Indonesia and south-east Asia. Taxi v SMRT – The SMRT is the excellent, clean, safe, reliable, cheap transport system of Singapore. Perhaps I have missed my calling.

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Birding across the north of Australia in July

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In Australia it is winter in July, but the weather is as perfect as you could hope for in the north of the country with daytime temperatures around 30c/86f and the night-time temperatures being around 20c/68f and rarely a cloud in the sky. Cattle can be anywhere! An area of highway that floods.

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