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Evan has his PhD presentation ceremony in mid July and we are heading off to Canberra. This time, we plan to head north to southern Queensland and northern NSW after leaving Canberra. Our furthest destination is Carnarvon Gorge, which has quite a few walks with the sandstone gorge and on the surrounding high areas. The route north will be through central NSW and for the return we plan to come down the coast way into Victoria.

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