Springs And Rocks
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006Outback


These are photos of our van after driving through the outback for two days. Most of this mess was caused when we hit a grasshopper plague. Grasshoppers sit on the road - presumably because of the heat it gives off - lazing the day away, until we come along and they panic and try to jump or fly away. Instead they jump and fly into us, creating a mess that stunk of, well, grass. It looks like we’ve gone through just-cut grass, but what you see there is all grasshopper, my friends.
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Keep going past Cairns and you reach the tropical rainforest of Daintree. To sum up Daintree in one word I would have to use 'fresh'. Because that's what you feel, what ... 

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Rupert writes
An antagonisingly long flight filled with many movies ...