BURNT OUT!!

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS A VEHICLE CAN CATCH FIRE, BUT WHEN TRAVELLING IN OUR DESERT COUNTRY THERE IS ONE CAUSE THAT FAR OUTWEIGHS ANY OTHER

WORDS AND PHOTOS RON MOON

ON OUR most recent desert jaunt leading a trip for my son’s tour company, Moon Tours (www.moontours.com. au), we came across a total of five burnt-out vehicles dotted along a couple of remote desert tracks. These had all succumbed to a spinifex fire and were not vehicles that had broken down and then got torched, as you often seen on our more-often travelled outback roads. Then, as I was writing this, I heard a news report of a couple having been rescued from the Gibson Desert after their vehicle had caught fire on the Talawana Track. While there were very few other details, I could hazard a guess of what went wrong! Two of the vehicles we’d seen had been burnt-out many years previously (I had photographed one of them, a Landie,…

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