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Basin people talk about where they live and why they love it!
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Ten year old Amelia Emmott of Noonbah Station near Stonehenge writes: “Sandy Gully is close to our home and it is my special place. I have been playing in the Sandy Gully since I was small. It is a great sandpit where I can relax and build things out of sand. It is picturesque and peaceful with lovely, shady trees and beautiful golden yellow sand. I can hear birds calling and kangaroos hopping across the sandy road. It sometimes smells of bark and sand. The Sandy Gully is somewhere I can go on my own to relax. I love it and I wish there were more places like it.” | |
| Rhondda Alexander of Marion Downs says: "The Lake Eyre Basin is my all-encompassing favourite area but the desert would have to be my pick. The colours, plants, animals, and most of all the space. It’s so awesome and eerie; it tugs and pulls at me leaving me in awe and wonder, not wanting to leave. I always want to know what’s over the next sandhill, and the next. It doesn’t matter whether there are flowers, along with trees and spinifex, in bloom, or blowing sand, heat mirages all around and the lack of moisture sucking the life out of you, the desert still holds that eerie wonder for me, possibly of the Dreamtime." |  |
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Ali Matthews of Innamincka reckons: "My favourite spot would be down near Strzelecki Creek which flows out of the Cooper. There are big lignum bushes all around and no one can camp down there. You can sit down there for hours and no one 100 metres away would even know you’re there! If you go down there in the early morning the reflections are brilliant and if you sit there long enough a turtle will drag itself up onto a log to sunbake or a rainbow fly-catcher will start diving for insects. No matter what time you go down there you will always hear whistling kites calling and that’s the best noise. That’s pretty much why I like my favourite spot." | |
| Lyn Rowlands from Birdsville writes: "The Diamantina River and Simpson Desert, is my favourite place. I was born there, so I have a spiritual, historical and a cultural connection with it. This country is the most magical spot just so relaxing and so beautiful. It is my place to think, reflect and respect.I am so proud to call this vast country my home. I know a lot of changes have happened over the years but the best things have not changed. The Diamantina River and the dunes of the desert are still sitting there. They are special places with memories of my heritage home sweet home." |  |
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Ada Miller of Camooweal says she has a stack of special places around the Basin but loves this stand of bloodwood to the east of town: "When you're driving into town, they suddenly appear beside the road such a contrast to the other trees and the red soil. And when they are in bloom they are quite magnificent. To me, they epitomise Australia rough, dry, rugged, beautiful and full of contrasts and surprises." | |
| R Maddock, former NT resident says: "What intrigues me about Palm Valley is the contrast of ubiquitous gum trees and ancient cabbage palms (Livistona mariae) which are found nowhere else in the world. These incredible antiquities remnants of a prehistoric era are silent sentinels overseeing the ebb and flow of outback life. Nurtured in a valley unsullied by tourist developments, they make this place a very special spot for me." |  |
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Tell us about your special place in the Basin - Write or Email 100 words plus a photo. Do it now!
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