Bart Bear's Blog

This is what most of Australia looks like when you get away from the areas where most people live. Most of the country is semi-desert like this bit near Broken Hill. The soil is sandy and very red. The trees are low and scrubby. Most of the animals only come out at night and spend the days in burrows or whatever shade they can find. The only animals you might see in daytime from the Indian-Pacific are camels. Camels haven't been in Australia for long. They were bought to Australia back in the late 19th century to carry stuff across country like this to outback towns and stations. They were turned loose when trains and trucks took over and now their decendents live in the "red centre". We went through country like this all the way from central New South Wales across to the start of the Nullarbor in South Australia, and again during the last day in the south-western part of Western Australia. Scruffy tried to count trees but I tried counting animals. I had it easy because we only saw a few rabbits and some birds, not a single camel.

Labels: South Australia, train, Western Australia