Thursday, July 27, 2006

Outback impressions




Our trip over 3000 km through the Outback was a journey with a lot of different landscapes and a big empty country. Sometimes we drove an hour without seeing another car or human being even we always used sealed main roads!
We started doing stupid games during the drive because we really got a little bored. We guessed what kind of car (caravan, road train, jeep etc.), street sign (grid, crest, curve etc.) was coming next. Or we tried to guess how bad the next grid (grids are on the street to stop animals like cows to cross to another area, because the don’t use many fences) should be, …we gave notes from 1 to 10 and really had some bad ones on our way.
Except from driving nearly the whole day, getting expensive petrol, cooking and sleeping wasn’t a lot to do, really strange. But seeing all the different styles of landscape, the beautiful sky full of stars (they were all the way to the bottom and so many falling stars) and some wildlife (cows, kangaroos, but mostly birds that we are not that interested in;-)!) was a great experience.