When in Australia many years ago in the Outback near Alice Springs,
we were traveling on this road crossing the Tropic...
(Not my pic, though I do have a slide of it somewhere ;)
I,too,did "the Outback" some years ago...I went to a town in New South Wales called Broken Hill,a stop on the Indian-Pacific (which is how I got there).It was September (their summer,as you know) and although it was south of the Tropic it was *anything* but cold.It hit 105 on each of the three days I was there.
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