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If
you like lots of people around you, noisy tourist machines with
dark-skinned, polished waiters offering blue drinks with umbrellas in tall
glasses by a pool-side, lush, green vegetation and tanned tourists with
skimpy tops in white to enhance their bronze skin, - don't visit the
outback.
There
is no really green foliage, no smooth looking waiters and not a lot of tanned
people, either. The vegetation is rough and harsh with colours closer to
grey, yellow and brown, rather than green. And those poor buggers who have
let the merciless rays from the sun fry their skin over the years, - not only
do they look a lot older than their age, they also often have to see their doctor
at frequent intervals to remove spots of re-occurring skin cancer.
Water is scarce, temperatures high and distances long. The outback can be
a hellish place.
So
why live
there? Why bother to go there at all?
Because it is has a magic of its own...
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Everything
you find on these pages are basically based my thoughts, opinions
and experiences from one Month on the road between Adelaide and
Darwin. I have tried to make sure all factual information is
correct, but if you find positive errors, please let me know. Any
additional information or comments is also most welcome.
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of the small pictures link to other pages or larger photos.
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If you
wish to copy any text or photos, please ask for permission first; it
does take some time to create these pages.
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