Against an early morning backdrop of glowing outback rock escarpments I rolled out of my swag to contemplate the coming day … and to have a wee.
The cries and squawks of birdlife wafted through the trees overhead as our party stirred and shuffled bleary eyed into the rapidly growing light.
The early explorers faced innumerable hardships and challenges as they traversed this harsh wilderness. In those early days Central Australia was no place for the faint hearted.
I, however, wasn’t going to be roughing it too much really. Our party consisted of an anaesthetist, an ENT specialist, an ex-moto GP star and sports commentator, the owner of an ARB store, two ex-RAF chopper pilots circumnavigating the globe by motorcycle, a fix-it-all truck driver, a dirt bike-mad Iveco engineer and…
