Wild Times in the Outback
Game on! Things are getting real As we descended the steps of our airplane in Alice Springs I noticed that the passengers in front of me were all furiously fanning their faces. Must be hot out there I thought. That was until the first fly landed on my face. My next thought was Oh shit - that was as fly 10 through 20 proceeded to join it. If you remember only one thing from the 15 years we have spent writing this blog remember this: Bring a freaking fly head net to the Outback. Seriously. With plans to go hiking the next day, we diverted the rental car to every store still open on a Saturday at 5pm. Kmart (yes, still a thing here), Bunnings (the Australian Home Depot), Woolworths (the grocery store) and the chemist (the Aussie term for pharmacy). At Bunnings we had a moment of hope when they directed us to aisle 24 only to find that the fly net bin was completely empty. The store clerk told us his inventory system read "107 in stock". Unfortunately neither the clerk nor we co...