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The Carson River Track could possibly be one of the toughest 4 wheel drive challenges that exist in Australia. The photographer of this image spent 5 days with some friends and 2 four wheel drive cars and only managed to make it 104 kilometres up the track from where it starts. The track winds its way through a remote part of a region of Australia known as the Kimberley. This region is famous for its spectacular gorges and large river systems. For part of the year the region may be accessible with 4 wheel drive vehicle, for the remainder of the year, during the wet season, roads may be closed and or impassable to any traffic.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
