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Surrounded by bushfires

So, what do you do when you're in an extremely remote part of the world, with the closest human being over 500km away in any direction, you have no contact with the outside world - no phone reception, no CB radio, and no one knows where you are, and you then realise you are surrounded by bushfire in every direction?

Let's backtrack to the start of our story.

This took place in late 2017. And by late, I mean LATE. It was December, and I was on a solo expedition through Central Australia. The temperature never dropped below 38°C, and that was at night! During the day, it was regularly over 45°C, closer to 48°C on most days. But the real killer was the humidity. I was in the tropics, near Darwin, and the air was literally thick with humidity. Simply walking around was like wading through soup, except it was all around you. There was no escape from it.

So, as I mentioned, I had set off 2 weeks earlier from Sydney on a month-long expedition through Central Australia. I hadn't planned on heading to such a remote location as I found myself in now, but my inquisitive nature got the better of me, like it always does, and I simply HAD to know what was at the end of that dotted line on the map.

More coming soon...