Tag: Travel
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Pain Place
Every city has its pain place. In Darwin there’s the man with no legs elevated in a shady doorway. There’s the bus driver constantly glancing apprehensively in his mirror at the back of the bus where a drunk disheveled woman directs angry shouts like blows at a man in the group.
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North Head Sanctuary Sydney
Between 1881 and 1925 more than 240 people were buried in the Third Quarantine Cemetery at North Head, Manly pictured above. When walking amongst the gravesites, two periods stand out; 1900 when bubonic plague hit Sydney, and 1918 when the troop ship Medic arrived on at the quarantine station with 203 crew members suffering from…