I stumbled across a good little travel narrative in the LA Times about Western Australia. The author drove across the state from Perth to Darwin. It is a long slog, 3,522 outback miles — about the distance from Seattle to Miami.
Did you know that Western Australia is 6 times the size of California? But it only has about 2 million people, about the same as Houston, Texas. Three fourths of the people live in the Perth area alone (about 1.5 million). So once you get a few clicks outside of Perth, there ain't a lot of people around.
The travelog is a good read. The author goes up to Monkey Mia, where humans and dolphins interact. He went to Shark Bay, and to Exmouth, where Australia's other Great Barrier Reef can be found.
Well. This has me hankering to take off in my trusty little Ford Laser wagon. I don't think it will make it. Perhaps it will make it to Darwin, and I could fly back to Perth, sans car.
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