(This is Part Two of the account of my rail journeys in 2009, bisecting the Australian continent, first east to west on the Indian Pacific, then north to south on...
Once again we’re back in the middle of the trackless hot and dry area that makes up most of the middle of the Australian continent. The first to successfully settle...
Here’s a departure from the norm: Darwin’s train station is a 30 minute taxi ride out of town, well beyond the airport. And when I get there, the rain is...
The Nullarbor Plain has to be one of the great deserts of the world. But its name is misleading. Nullarbor comes from the Latin meaning “no trees,” and while that...