+ SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE
BOGGED IN THE BUSH
WORDS AND IMAGES : CAROLYNE JASINSKI
CAROLYNE JASINSKI LEARNED FOUR IMPORTANT LESSONS WHEN HER OUTBACK TRIP WENT SERIOUSLY WRONG …
Let me set the scene . We have just left Daly Waters and are driving north along the Stuart Highway , through the centre of Australia towards Mataranka and those welcoming hot springs . We ’ re seasoned road-trippers . Or so we thought .
This is our second half-lap of Australia . We ’ re driving from Adelaide to Darwin , then heading east to follow the coast back to South Australia . Today ’ s drive is
24 \ only 168km – an easy stretch in outback terms – but things go terribly wrong when we stop at a tourist site .
We pull into the World War II No 45 Hospital historic site , NT . Well , that ’ s where we thought we were . But the historic site is not obvious at first . It ’ s a small area to pull into , with an obvious circular track where people have turned around again and left .