Independent Online, South Africa
We were warned when we called in at the mother of all outdoors shops in Perth: "You don't wanna go up there for long, mate - 50 degrees, 98 percent humidity, and if the mozzies and sand flies don't get ya, the crocs will." Yeah, yeah, we'd heard it all before. We had travelled in the Northern Territories and North Queensland and lived to tell the tale. Now we were heading off on a camping trip to the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.
So it was torches, Leatherman tools, all-weather matches, folding shovels, fishing lines, tropical-strength insect repellent and the bare minimum of clothes.
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