Outback facts
Posted by Ben on | August 12, 2008
- When camping the difference between 2 and -2 degrees is astounding
- There are an estimated 12,000,000 feral cats in the Australian outback. As a result many of our native furry friends are extinct or seriously threatened.
- The Anaugu say that in dreamtime a giant dog ran across the face of Uluru. Its footprints are still there today.
- Uluru is red because it is rusting. It is a mixture of sandstone and iron
- Wedge-Tailed Eagles and Thorny Devils are Australia’s coolest animals. Fact!
- Many World Youth Day pilgrims climbed Uluru
- When a drunk Stock Musterer, sporting a cowboy hat asks you what job you think he does its best you don’t say Tax Accountant.
- Its against the law to take pornography to Uluru. Not that I have any or anything.
- Bull dust gets into everything. Tip - Store your camera and other electronic valuables in a zip lock plastic bag.
- Spinifex grass looks cool but its ends are sharper than you think and can give you splinters
- According to a local the air in the Australian outback is as dry as a “dead dingo’s donga”.
- You need a full tank of petrol to go “just up the road”.
- Once we paid $2.23 a litre for unleaded petrol.
- If you drive past a Wedge-Tailed Eagle who is enjoying a kanga carcass it will stare you down as if to say, “If you want a piece of this you have to get by me first.”
- Being able to watch the Tour de France when you’re in the Australian outback is a strong benefit of globalisation
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August 13th, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Despite the many and varied roadkill along outback highways, you will never see a dead crow.