30th April - 1st May - Birthday On The Ranch After a night with no sleep at Airlie Beach, having stayed up until 4AM to watch Manchester United reach the final of the Champions League, we were back on the bus down to Kroombit. It is here where the cattle ranch is situated and for the first time we headed inland into the Australian 'outback'. This was to be our longest bus journey yet, lasting a total of 11 hours! As the journey progressed the landscape began to change from the beach/ rainforest into the typical red dust of the outback. With Australia having its worst drought in 100 years many farmers in this part of the country had come a cropper. With a lack of water to feed the animals, cattle farming was on a
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