(Lawn Hill National Park Outback NW Qld) ‘Well its not uncommon, through December, for temperatures to get tio 38 Deg Celcius at midnight… ...but its that dry heat, you know...Ill take that over only 30degC in Brisbane anyday.’ What the…? The irrationality of the Queenslander continues to confound me. I can still only equate this to the high proportion of deadly and unpleasant things (snakes, box jellys, crocs, sandflies, funnelwebs, ross river, qld health system etc) that one must contest with on a daily basis here. Combined of course with a given amount of brain shrinkage caused by heat. It’s the type of country where 90km between road signs gives you something to look forward to on the long and straight roads that lead from nowhere to even more nowhere. A regular train service out here
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