Australian Stories from our Past

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E22 - Off to the Rush - Life and Death along the Track

E22 - Off to the Rush - Life and Death along the Track27. Feb.31 Min.

Send us Fan Mail A flooded river, a stubborn pony, and a crooked border set the stage for a journey that refuses to fit neat lines on a map. We follow our hardy party from Lake Bonney through sand and scrub toward Lake Victoria, rebuilding their path from terse diary entries and hard choices made under rain-heavy skies. What some call Freeman’s Creek aligns with Ral Ral, and distances snap into focus: eighteen rough miles off the river flats, then a camp where a stockkeeper, local...