Buster, my cattle dog stopped for a doggie comfort stop. We are in the Hart Ranges in
the Northern Territory fossicking for gem stones where we have
found Garnet and Zirconia’s which my wife has had faceted into
earrings. On trips like this you have to be completely self
sufficient carrying water and food for the duration, and on this
particular trip about 250 litres of diesel.
It’s rather lonely and your only contact in case of emergency would be by Royal Flying Doctor radio which is plumbed into my Land rover. Sanitary needs like showers and general hot water are generated from the engine however its compensation for loneliness is the sheer size and beauty the of the outback and its varied fauna and wildlife.
At night time when it is that dark that you cannot see your own feet away from the campfire, you lie in a swag and look up at the sky, and you feel you can reach out and touch a star, there are so many and so bright that they don’t seem real You can also watch the satellites that cross the sky or listen to the Dingoes strange bark- come howl.
Mike Callaghan
It’s rather lonely and your only contact in case of emergency would be by Royal Flying Doctor radio which is plumbed into my Land rover. Sanitary needs like showers and general hot water are generated from the engine however its compensation for loneliness is the sheer size and beauty the of the outback and its varied fauna and wildlife.
At night time when it is that dark that you cannot see your own feet away from the campfire, you lie in a swag and look up at the sky, and you feel you can reach out and touch a star, there are so many and so bright that they don’t seem real You can also watch the satellites that cross the sky or listen to the Dingoes strange bark- come howl.
Mike Callaghan