{"id":98,"date":"2013-07-24T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.kristinmartin.net\/?p=98"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T07:51:52","slug":"devils-marbles-and-tennant-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelblog.bigham.co\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Devil’s Marbles and Tennant Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Days 7 – 8<\/p>\n

These are the Devil’s Marbles. They are made of granite and are formed by water eroding the layer of rock. Or something like that. We saw these on the way to Tennant Creek.<\/p>\n

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Devil’s Marbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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These are the same ones as before. Dad took this photo.<\/p>\n

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Devil’s Marbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is Che with Matt and some more marbles behind him.<\/p>\n

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Che & Matt – Devil’s Marbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We are standing beside a termite mound. There are hundreds and hundreds and thousands and thousands of these. Dad thinks it looks like a cemetery.<\/p>\n

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Che & Matt – Termite mound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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These look like butt cheeks.<\/p>\n

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Devil’s Marbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This marble cracked by water getting into a tiny crack and reacting with some of the granite, turning it to clay. Eventually the crack grew so big that the weight of the stone made it crack in half.<\/p>\n

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Cracked marble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We stayed in Tennant Creek. It’s not hot yet. It was 22 but windy. Really windy. Matt wanted to go swimming in the caravan park pool, but it was too cold.<\/p>\n

We drove to look at The Pebbles, which are really called Kunjarra. Matt sat on one. These are like the Devil’s Marbles but smaller.<\/p>\n

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Matt – The Pebbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is Matt and a gecko sitting on the rock. See if you can spot the gecko. (In case you’re wondering, the gecko is not real, it’s made of plastic)<\/p>\n

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Matt – The Pebbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Can you spot the gecko in this picture?<\/p>\n

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The Pebbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Che and Matt are still at The Pebbles.<\/p>\n

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Che and Matt – The Pebbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We think this is a swallow nest. It was underneath the roof of a shelter at The Pebbles. There were lots of these.<\/p>\n

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Swallow nests?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is the Old Telegraph Station – there was a relay of 11 stations from Adelaide to Darwin. If Mr Smith wanted to send a message from Adelaide to England in the year 1900, it would have taken 7 hours, at the quickest. They sent the message by morse code.<\/p>\n

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Old Telegraph Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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