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Australian cruise: Bond Street meets outback

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03-18-2008, 09:28 AM

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Australian cruise: Bond Street meets outback

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On an expeditionary cruise in Western Australia, Peter Hughes enjoys the remoteness, the ancient cave art - and some solid home comforts.

Anywhere else they would have called this a safari, but safari is a tricky word in Australia. If it summons up visions of rhino roaming the savannahs, of slinking leopards and stalking lions, the Australian version may be a bit of an anticlimax.

The most dramatic wildlife encounters down under are notional. It is the thought of the homicidal that gives Australia its frisson: venomous snakes, toxic spiders, psychotic sharks, lethal jellyfish and crocodiles that can take off your leg before they are half grown. All lurk in the imagination's long grass but they are not really the stuff of tourist tick-lists. The reality is safer, if tamer.

That is why, on the second morning of my voyage into the Timor Sea aboard the expedition ship Orion, we looked at mangroves. And while our quarry did look like a load of undergrowth, there were compensations.

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Australian cruise: Bond Street meets outback - Telegraph

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