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The next morning I awoke to the cackles of Crows. I felt like a new man, still high from the day’s find as I crawled into my warm swag and drifted off into a deep sleep. We found a campground, set up camp and enjoyed the first shower we had in days.

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The streets of Birdsville were fairly deserted but the pub was well-lit and full of people. After a few hours we could see lights on the horizon, the only lights aside from our headlights and the sparkle of stars. We continued our journey to Birdsville, dodging roos the whole way. After a short time we were enveloped in a velvety blackness with bright white stars quickly filling the inky abyss above. We climbed a sand dune, blood-red in the evening light and watched as the sky turned intensely orange and yellow, slowly mellowing to pink and lavender. The sun became too intense by around 5:30 PM so we pulled off to watch it set. There was not a single town we passed and only occasionally another vehicle, it was truly remote. The ride was jarring, a constant hum of tire over stone served as our music down the highway as we chased the setting sun over sand dunes and around escarpments. Most of the road was sharp gravel, except for short stretches of asphalt that also served as emergency airstrips. We turned left onto the Birdsville Track and began the 280 kilometer trek deeper into the outback.

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The earth was tanned and cracked with no trees from highway to horizon.

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