Outback

Giant Termite Hill!

Cheeky Emu looking to steal something from our rental car!
(I got to drive on the wrong side of the car and road! Awesome!)

The last adventure Mom and I shared was a trip out to the Outback.

Well to start...I didn't find any steakhouses...no bloomin' onions or shrimp on the barbie! (Both of which Outback Steakhouse made up by the way) In fact we didn't find much at all. Mainly heaps of gigantic termite mounds and long horned, floppy eared cattle all over the road or in the dried/burned fields. It was beautiful though. Just endless repeatition of mountains and then plains. We drove a few hours and arrived in one of the most remote and boring towns in the world. It was some lame tourist trap, but the beautiful drive was worth it anyway!

On the drive back I drove! It was my first experience both driving on the left and driving in a car with the drivers side on the left. It was great fun! Driving on unsealed roads (shhhh don't tell the rental car company!) was fun, but the best part was dodging cows and pot holes. At one point I thought I had popped a tire though...
I was driving along and there wasn't a town for at least 50 miles in any given direction and you only past another car every blue moon. I was just crusing along when saw a sign that said "neighborhood watch". What neighborhood and who was watching?!? I literally was laughing so hard I was crying so I didn't see the monster pot hole! We heard a huge thud and crunch, but I lucked out and everything was just fine! Ooops!

 Also in the savannah we found a nice nature reserve that had many beautiful birds including a emu that was keen on stealing something from the car! He was peeking through the windows, I'm sure when people leave them open he swipes a few things!

I did have a shocking moment when we went the the "outhouse". (which was just like a normal toilet just detached to the main building) My mom went in first, while I chased emus around the outside. She told me (through the wood walls) that there a sign to keep the seat down because wildlife gets into the toilet. I laughed and while she told me a story about a snake being in a toilet in Texas  (I think). Meanwhile I went in the second stale, sat down, screamed and jumped up! I felt the struggle of a creature underneath me! It wiggled and I thought for sure after the story Mom had just told me I was about to have a Brown Snake (one of Australia's most deadly) bitting my ass! My Mom paniced (understandable since EVERYTHING IN AUSTRALIA IS DEADLY), until I started laughing! I sat on a HUGE green tree frog! This is probably one of my favorite moments of the entire trip!