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Originally Posted by loosegoose
I've never been to the outback, the heat and flies is enough to put me off. But on the rare occasions someone does die, it's usually because they've gone off the main roads. Stick to the bitumen and someone will be along shortly.
However....and I can't stress this firmly enough...DO NOT!!! attempt to flag down a roadtrain.
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or they come hiking , think their indestructible and take a wrong turn
American tourist, 33, is found dead in the Australian outback in soaring 108F temperatures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Australia.html
The worst case - 2 young urban naive locals used & abused
Nearly 16 years after the deaths of two teenage boys in the searing heat of the Gibson Desert - one having resorted to blowing his brains out with a rifle - their ordeal still haunts Australians.
It has been a long, hard road for Les and Sandra Annetts, whose son James, as a 16-year-old Griffith schoolboy, responded to an advertisement for jackaroos in the Kimberley in 1986 and left home for an adventure.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/...115911284.html