My trip to Australia back in April 1986. I also taped some radio airchecks during my trip

No, I really didn't see a table radio atop a table land

First stop was Cairns

At first I thought this was an adult movie theater, with the "XXXX" signs.

After Cairns we went to Alice Springs by air, then by bus to Ayers Rock, aka Uluru. We passed these below places on the Stuart Highway A87 and the Lasseter Highway 4 on the way.

Below is Mt Connor, and further below right is Kata Tjuta, old name was The Olgas.
Mt Ebenezer,.
We stopped for lunch at Mt Ebenezer,

Mt Ebenezar looks a bit different in 2020 in this Google view (assuming this is in fact the same view as my picture in 1986!). Windmill is gone, and a few other differences, as one would expect over 34 years.

At the Henbury craters. Heard that a sizable meteorite hit this spot about five thousand years ago, and that it unnerved the local Aboriginal people when it happened. Their tradition has it "A fiery devil ran down from the Sun and made his home in the Earth". I'd probably be unnerved too if I thought that, and avoid the area. The physical presense of this strange site may have kept this tradition alive over many generations of the local people explaining it to their kids.

When it got dark, we saw Haley's Comet.
and the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud

There was a partial solar eclipse April 9th, here below left as it would look like seen from the Sun. That's the Moon's farside you see. Below right I made a pinhole camera with my hand and the image projected on the side of our tour bus. From the prospective as seen in Australia, the Moon blocked the top of the Sun, and the projected image inverts this prospective.
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Melbourne.

Only place we saw kangaroos was at the zoo. And an Aussie sundial, the shadow goes counterclockwise!
And some birds too

and Sydney.

Our tour guide told us that the local kids call this place the American Embassy...

A discription of this trip: