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Lookout


The guidebook says the lookout at sunset is a photographer's delight.  Well with clear blue sky sunset is a fizzer.

And it is not just one lookout, there are many lookouts but the problem is the view looks much the same from all of them. East, South, North and West ... flat, flat, flat, flat country.  We are heading out into it again tomorrow.


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  1. VickiOctober 3, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    Wow, that is extraordinarily flat country.You can see for miles.

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    1. Joan ElizabethOctober 3, 2013 at 10:27 PM

      I didn't realise how flat until we got up to the top of this hill.

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  2. UnknownOctober 4, 2013 at 8:59 PM

    In northern Tanzania we have the Serengeti which, in Swahili language, means 'endless plains'. This might be the Australian Serengeti. :-)

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    1. Joan ElizabethOctober 7, 2013 at 9:10 PM

      Yes that is a good description for this country and other places in the Australian outback.

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  3. diane bOctober 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM

    A big country.

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    1. Joan ElizabethOctober 7, 2013 at 9:09 PM

      I always think of this type of country as big sky country.

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  4. Red Nomad OZOctober 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM

    It makes you feel SMALL, doesn't it??

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