Outback Adventures II
Monday, March 12th, 2007Jan 13-15
In the interests of time (I’ve got a lot of catching up to do) I’m not posting any photos in this blog and you can view all of our Outback photos at our web album:
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| Adelaide to Darwin |
Time zones in Australia are the most bizarre I have ever seen and can result in some very confused travelers. Queensland doesn’t subscribe to Daylight Savings and New South Wales does. Different states switch from Standard to Daylight Savings at different times and many border towns have the option of following whichever state they choose. There is only a half hour time difference between Victoria and South Australia and another hour change when crossing into the Northern Territory (don’t ask me why, but I think it has something to do with Daylight Savings again). I heard of one backpacker who almost got into a fist fight at a library in Victoria border town over an internet terminal he had booked for 2:30pm; turns out that the border town in question was on South Australia time and it was only 2pm. Something similar happened to us when we stopped for the night in Erldunda at the turn-off to Kings Canyon and Uluru (aka Ayers Rock). [read on]
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