closed to get from one state to the
other. It seemed ridiculous that this
wire construction, a few metres high
and nothing more than strengthened
chicken wire stretched for more than
5,600 kilometres from near Nundroo,
somewhere along the Nullarbor Plain
in South Australia to near Dalby in
Queensland.
The Dog Fence was constructed in
the late 1800s in an attempt to cut the
losses of sheep to the ‘dreaded’ dingo,
Australia’s native dog. Ludicrous,
can this fence actually do it? To this
day the fence creates a great divide
as to whether it works; dingos can be
found on both sides.
The last gate we needed to close
was perhaps the most famous for
here was the ‘Corner Store’, the road-
house that cashes in on the hoards
of 4x4 and motorcycles tourists that
need to say they’ve been to corner
country. Like a spider’s web, tracks
finger out in all directions from the
centre of the ‘Corner Store’. It’s easily
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