What does Australia's Great Dividing Range divide?

Thanks - it's bloody scary around the wabid wabbit!

PS .....Think I'll go to SA for the cricket next year - ground looks much nicer than SCG - and greater chance of getting tickets...The Poms are coming (again)!

I humbly apologize for my Australian geographical failings.

Hey, who's idea was it to have a wabbitt fence and not a kiwi fence ?

Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson!

I just had a flashback to grade 3 in primary school!

http://www.infobluemountains.net.au/history/crossing_3ex.htm

Turns out it isn't 100% accurate, but it was a pretty good yarn, anyway!

Well then!!!

Perhaps you will allow me to entertain you properly this time!

I ventured across the Great Dividing Range twice on the weekend (or 4 times - two return rips) - family crisis. A 3 hour drive to Bathurst - on the central western plains.

It's bloody dry out there. The Macquarie River (bed) is really wide at Bathurst - but now consists of a string of small waterholes - with not much water. The countryside is brown - the only green spaces are the cultivated pine forests. Things are pretty quiet.

Somehow, the Outback always sounded like a nice word for a dunny. Never could figure out why they would name a restaurant after something like that.

Eww! I'm glad I haven't been stricken with No Rules, Just Blight compulsion to eat at that chain restaurant because now I'm going to associate it with outhouses at such ... thanks roger!

Oh, that's not what it means. That's just what always comes to mind. I ate there once on a bank sponsored customer appreciation day. It was pretty good. I did not inspect the dunny.

I have no doubt that it's on the same level as Applebees or TGIF's and a half dozen steps above The Olive Garden.

I got carried away because I had to look up the word dunny in the Urban Dictionary.

If you were really in the outback, you wouldnt look for a dunny, you would look for a shovel. And a bush. Sometimes the bushes are hard to find. On an unrelated matter, snakes like bushes.

I was in the army and am fully aware of making my own improvised field latrine free from dangerous critters and still be marginally out of sight.