Australian Outback

The Outback captures our minds in a strangely compelling way. What is it about wide open spaces and sometimes hostile conditions that attracts so many of us? Do we like to scare ourselves a little bit with vistas of the vast nothingness; find ourselves when there’s no other trappings of modern life around; or simply like the crazy wildlife?

Going Bush in Australia can mean a number of things, because there’s a number of ways of doing it – and places to do it in. When most people think of the Outback, they think of empty, red, dusty deserts, which the Northern Territory specialises in; but Outback holidays also covers Queensland’s huge interior, all ranches, forests and desert, New South Wales’ hidden swathes of bush, tracks and mountains, South Australia’s obscure and long-forgotten mining towns in the middle of nowhere, Western Australia’s humungous plains - in fact pretty much anywhere inland will set your mind racing and heart wondering.

Outback holidays might mean road trips, a little hiking, sight seeing and discovering Aboriginal cultural icons such as Uluru and the awesome sandstone cliffs in WA, and even camel racing; or even becoming a jackeroo or jillaroo for a few days and going cowboy on the Great Australia Outback Cattle Drive in 2010 - five mind-blowing City Slicker days helping to round up the herds.

Whatever you’re looking for, you could well find your answers out in Oz’s Outback; unless you’re wondering how on earth the horny devil came into being. It’s still a wonderful mystery to us anyway!