I never thought I'd be glad to be staying in a hostel, but after six days of camping in the Outback it's good to be back in civilisation. Alice Springs is tiny, one main street but it has real coffee and a supermarket so I'm content.
It's also home to a vast number of wandering Aborigines. I learn that if an an Aborigine commits a crime, the'yre expelled from their communities and drift to the nearest town. Alice Springs is the biggest place for hundreds of miles. The Aborigines look vacant. Everyone ignores them. It's almost as if they're invisible.
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