In the outback, the heat is not your mate. It’s not a gentle, ocean-breeze warmth. Out here, the heat hits you in the face like a bitter ex-girlfriend. It sears your skin, burns your throat with every breath and makes sun-exposed metal unbearable to touch for more than a second or two – a fact I remembered only after having rested my hand briefly on a ute’s bullbar while getting up from digging sand away from its bogged front wheels. Yep, it burnt.

When driving out here, you swiftly realise that the outback doesn’t care about your mortgage repayments or your Friday-night fashion dilemmas or your #blessed life or the soy latte awaiting you in your hipster-cool home town. The outback – as beautiful as it is – is designed for one thing: to hurt you.
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