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We wondered around the town, there sure were a lot of rockets in random places. I think Woomera is particularly proud of their rocket museum The image with the sign warning ‘keep off the grass ‘ is at the Woomera golfcourse. It must be like one giant sand trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We wondered around the town, there sure were a lot of rockets in random places. I think Woomera is particularly proud of their rocket museum . Every now and again we’d come upon strange remnants of occupation in what just looks like an empty site od sand and scrub: pegs, toy soldiers, buttons. We heard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[15,17],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-permaculture-design","category-travel","tag-studio","tag-woomera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sound1.jpg?resize=8%2C11\" "\\"sound\\"")
<\/a>. Every now and again we’d come upon strange remnants of occupation in what just looks like an empty site od sand and scrub: pegs, toy soldiers, buttons. We heard that there was a bird sanctuary on the outskirts and went exploring. The sanctuary consisted of a large manicured lawn with roses all along the path. Roses in the desert! The birds seemed happy enough, but we felt so sorry for them in their little cages ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sound2.jpg?resize=8%2C11\" "\\"sound\\"")
<\/a>. When a flock of wild cockatoos flew overhead the caged birds all screamed. We made friends with one cockatoo in particular. He refused to speak except when we started to leave ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sound3.jpg?resize=8%2C11\" "\\"sound\\"")
<\/a>. Poor chook.<\/p>\n