Simply Red – The Australian Centre

The Outback, yesterday

What’s big and red and covered in flies? Well, besides Sarah Fergusson the answer is of course the central Australian Outback, to which Rosie and I repaired this week after five months of living and working in Melbourne.

We first flew to Alice Springs, where we hired a gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive vehicle for a trip across the red heart of the continent. From Alice we headed west along sealed roads before, in true Fast Show style, going off-road and following the 200-odd kilometres of the Mereenie Loop track to King’s Canyon.