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Its been years since I've been to the town of Mansfeld, I wonder what a 'pizza pie' would be like!

 

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AUSTRALIA’S REMOTEST TOWN.

Kieirrkurra Community.

Without a doubt one of the Remote areas in Australia. Often known as the most remote town in Australia, the Kiwirrkurra Community is situated in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert.

1,200 km east of Port Hedland and 850km west of Alice Springs. Its closest neighbouring community is Walungurru (Kintore). 100km west across state borders in the Northern Territory. This indigenous community of around 170 people is passionate about maintaining its heritage and on the 19th of October 2001 the Kiwirrkurra people gained native title over the 42,900 square kilometres of the surrounding land and waters.

Lying on the flat, red desert, the community is not an easy one to get to. If you are looking to visit the most remote town in Australia, then make sure you go prepared with a 4WD and caravan. Because there is little accommodation and the closest airport is at Tennant Creek around 600km away.

 

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15 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

AUSTRALIA’S REMOTEST TOWN.

Kieirrkurra Community.

Without a doubt one of the Remote areas in Australia. Often known as the most remote town in Australia, the Kiwirrkurra Community is situated in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert.

1,200 km east of Port Hedland and 850km west of Alice Springs. Its closest neighbouring community is Walungurru (Kintore). 100km west across state borders in the Northern Territory. This indigenous community of around 170 people is passionate about maintaining its heritage and on the 19th of October 2001 the Kiwirrkurra people gained native title over the 42,900 square kilometres of the surrounding land and waters.

Lying on the flat, red desert, the community is not an easy one to get to. If you are looking to visit the most remote town in Australia, then make sure you go prepared with a 4WD and caravan. Because there is little accommodation and the closest airport is at Tennant Creek around 600km away.

 

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I found this on google maps, but the little guy for street view will not go to any of the streets. This must REALLY be remote! 

 

 

Sometimes, this is where I need to be...  

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6 hours ago, Brazos John said:

I found this on google maps, but the little guy for street view will not go to any of the streets. This must REALLY be remote! 

 

 

Sometimes, this is where I need to be...  

 

I reckon there'd be so much to there :) 

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On 5/6/2025 at 7:44 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

AUSTRALIA’S REMOTEST TOWN.

Kieirrkurra Community.

Without a doubt one of the Remote areas in Australia. Often known as the most remote town in Australia, the Kiwirrkurra Community is situated in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert.

1,200 km east of Port Hedland and 850km west of Alice Springs. Its closest neighbouring community is Walungurru (Kintore). 100km west across state borders in the Northern Territory. This indigenous community of around 170 people is passionate about maintaining its heritage and on the 19th of October 2001 the Kiwirrkurra people gained native title over the 42,900 square kilometres of the surrounding land and waters.

Lying on the flat, red desert, the community is not an easy one to get to. If you are looking to visit the most remote town in Australia, then make sure you go prepared with a 4WD and caravan. Because there is little accommodation and the closest airport is at Tennant Creek around 600km away.

 

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Lots more there than you would think.  Remote School, Art Center, Basketball Court, Football Pitch, and a Community Machine Shop, 

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15 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Lots more there than you would think.  Remote School, Art Center, Basketball Court, Football Pitch, and a Community Machine Shop, 

 

https://nit.com.au/20-09-2023/7759/basic-human-rights-of-clean-water-for-kirirrkurra-community-are-being-neglected

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What did I miss?  I chose a rural place to live.  It had a well with water rights.  I maintain it as an individual with service and repair as required.  If there is no reliable source of water on a property out here, and folks want to live there. they have cisterns and truck it in.  I would not find a place without good water to be habitable.

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Samuel Speed was considered by many to be the last surviving convict transported to Australia. Samuel was convicted of arson in 1863 after setting fire to a barley stack so that he could be imprisoned and at least get regular meals. He was sentenced to transportation for seven years. He got his ticket of leave in 1867 and his certificate of freedom four years later. Samuel died in 1938, well into his nineties, and gave a detailed interview about his experiences to the Perth Mirror newspaper a few months before he passed away. In all that time, he was never convicted of a crime.

 

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On 5/8/2025 at 5:03 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

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So not only does everything want to kill you, Australia now offers death in designer colors!?!! :P

Regards

:FlagAm:  :FlagAm:  :FlagAm:

Gateway Kid

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2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

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Did he fang it first, to make sure it was dead?

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4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

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I thought wild animals were supposed to be scared of fire.

 

Ain't nobody told your snakes that?

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5 hours ago, Alpo said:

I thought wild animals were supposed to be scared of fire.

 

Ain't nobody told your snakes that?

 

It's hungry :)

 

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8 hours ago, Alpo said:

I thought wild animals were supposed to be scared of fire.

 

Ain't nobody told your snakes that?

 

Aussie summers get quite hot. maybe the snake was looking for a cooler place to eat lunch.

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‘CHILDREN LOST IN BUSH’ - 1864

 

In August 1864, in outback north-western Victoria, the plight of three children lost in the bush for nine days aroused colonists’ primitive fears about nature.

The Duff family lived in a shepherd's hut on Spring Hill station, west of Mount Arapiles. On Friday 12th August 1864, around 9-10am, their mother Hannah sent the children - Isaac (aged 9), Jane (7) and Frank(3½) - to cut and collect broom bush, about a mile from their home.

On this occasion the children ventured further to another patch of broom and wildflowers which lay beyond a brush fence. After gathering the broom the children mistakenly turned north, the opposite direction to home, until they reached a fence (probably the boundary fence between Spring Hill and Heath Hill stations) where they turned north-easterly.

The country was sandy with the bush composed of mallee scrub and vast swathes of heath, in some places dense and almost impenetrable. When they did not return, their father searched on horseback, till near midnight, when the moon went down.

Dozens of local men on horseback combed the cold, harsh Wimmera scrub west of Horsham for days but lost their footsteps in heavy rain.

Three Aboriginal trackers picked up the trail, enabling the children’s father, shepherd John Duff, to spot Isaac Cooper, 9, Jane Cooper, 7, and Frank Duff, 3, emaciated but alive.

It was approaching sunset when Duff rode ahead of the other searchers to higher ground and saw a clump of saplings, closer he saw a covering moving in the wind and found the children asleep, Frank in the middle wrapped in Jane’s dress.

The arrival of the others woke the children, Isaac attempted to sit up and speak but could only groan feebly “Father” and fall back. Frank asked why they had not come sooner. Jane could not open her eyes, only murmured “Cold, cold”. They had walked over 4 miles on the final day.

Emaciated, weak and barely able to speak the children were given crumbs of bread and taken to a waterhole where they were much revived before proceeding to the nearest hut 8 miles away, where they were reunited with their mother about 8pm. Putting the children to bed, Jane was heard saying her prayers as she had each night.

The trackers challenged settlers’ hostile views of Aborigines and they were widely praised.

Dick-a-dick, also known as Djungadjinganook, Jumgumjenanuke, and King Richard, was one of the trackers who found the children on 20th August 1864. Dick-a-Dick was a Wotjobaluk man of the Wergaia language group. After rescuing the Duffs, he would go on to tour England as part of an Aboriginal cricket team that played 47 games between May and October 1868.

The children became well known, inspiring paintings, poems, books and generations of folk stories. The tale was part of the school texts across Victoria from the early 1900s to the late 1960s.

Jane, in particular, was anointed a heroine, for helping carry little Frank and covering her brothers with her dress to keep them warm at night.

Victorian schoolchildren raised over £150 to reward her, and an 1866 British publication, The Australian Babes In The Wood, retold the story as a morality tale for children. When the-then Jane Turnbull hit hard financial times in 1904, Victorians again raised over £360.

After Jane died in 1932 a memorial stone was erected, funded by schoolchildren’s coins, near where the children were found, 10 kilometres from their hut (they had walked 100 kilometres in circles).

 

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Funny! A good many years back I was invited to visit an Ostrich Ranch, where you might ask?  North Dakota, USA.  Really amazing.  They had a very small car padded with old mattreses, window openings covered with chain link fence material - no engine!  Floorboards were cut out and they walked it out to collect eggs.  The most amazing thing to me, and possbly only because they were in fenced compounds, is that the birds ran in flocks as other birds fly.  With Meat, eggs, leather and feathers, they seemed to have quite a good business.  Have to see if their card is still in my file from business days.  Ostrich boots are some of my most comfortable.

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9 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Funny! A good many years back I was invited to visit an Ostrich Ranch, where you might ask?  North Dakota, USA.  Really amazing.  They had a very small car padded with old mattreses, window openings covered with chain link fence material - no engine!  Floorboards were cut out and they walked it out to collect eggs.  The most amazing thing to me, and possbly only because they were in fenced compounds, is that the birds ran in flocks as other birds fly.  With Meat, eggs, leather and feathers, they seemed to have quite a good business.  Have to see if their card is still in my file from business days.  Ostrich boots are some of my most comfortable.

 

Ostriches are also farmed in Oz Rip, they have escaped (or been let go) and there are some feral populations.

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34 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

Awesome photo!

Gateway Kid

 

I was thinking it was faked - AI - because there's only three toes on that back foot.

 

So I looked up koalas. They have five toes. They also have thumbs. They have two thumbs on their hands - so instead of having one pointing out to the side and four coming out the front like we do, they have two going out the side and three coming out the front. The back feet the big toe is opposable and the second and third toe are fused. So both front and rear feet appear to only have three toes.

 

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A recipe on the Classic Bread and butter pudding!

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 cup sugar

4 Tablespoons butter or margarine, more or less as needed,

5 slices crust-on white bread

1/2 cup golden raisins

2 cups milk

2 eggs

DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F./180 C Add cinnamon to sugar in cup and mix well. Set aside. Generously spread one side of each piece of bread with butter or margarine. Cutting diagonally, slice each in half. Arrange triangle slices in pan, slightly overlapping, with butter-side up and cut edges facing the same direction, making a spiral. As you add the bread, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins. Put milk in small bowl, add eggs, and using whisk or fork, mix to blend well. Pour milk mixture over bread and raisins in baking pan.

Set aside for about 15 minutes for bread to absorb liquid. Bake in oven for about 30 minutes, or until top is golden brown. Serve the pudding while still warm in individual dessert bowls. It is eaten plain or with cream poured over it.

 

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7 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

 

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We always count the fingers and toes on Tasmanians :) 

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