So Much Nothing

I really have to get used to this. In The USA everywhere had wifi, everywhere had fast food in fact everywhere had, well, everything and that’s because, let’s face it America defined the concept of availability and the resulting mass consumption.

Out here in my newly adopted outback there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in fact there is so much nothing that it becomes something. If ever there was a case of less is more then this must be it. The sky is clearer and cleaner the quiet is overwhelming (even for us half deaf folk) and the essence of space is omnipresent.

This truly is the back of beyond and we are just out of Bourke, a good days drive from Sydney in Hungerford on the Queensland border. We are in fact parked in a national park at a place called “The Granites” which is in an area of “mulga scrub” in an area so flat that rain water does not drain away.. There are several thousand acres radiating out from our current location however we are the only people for miles. Access is by dirt road only which is closed if it rains, so if it rains it could be a long time between blog posts. Not to worry we have plenty of nothing, which I guess is something at least.

One of our number suggested that this was the place that the moon landing was filmed but we all know that that occurred on a back lot in Hollywood.

Things have been a bit rushed to date, however below are a couple of pictures which will no doubt fill you with awe and envy he said with tongue firmly pressed to inner cheek.

By the way you can add to the list of “man made things that can be seen from space” our camp fire…. It’s still cold out here!