>>785019
Baby Magpie. It parents were teaching it how to scab food from me and two cyclists (doing Steep Point to Byron) at Leinster WA.

>>785018
Still traveling. I'm in a high-altitude area of the New England NSW at the moment waiting out the heatwave before heading towards QLD. The free campsite I'm staying at is 29C, while the nearest big town is 36C (and 42C yesterday). There's a good shelter here with a table, and a powerpoint so I can nerd out with the laptop all day.
Post-travel is going to be a bother. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a town where they love NEETs. Ha.

>>785037
From the NT and WA during the Dry Season and into Winter, flies and mozzies where almost none!
In South Australia however, they got fucking serious--200 on your back at any time kind of deal. Victoria and NSW where only 1/3 as bad. It's definitely proportional to the amount of sheep around.

Travel tip: for the first 6 months I was using those $3.75 coffee sachets.. but while I was Darwin I noticed one of those portable Espresso machines for $99 that could be recharged from USB (like my solar panels do),using either those nescafe coffee capsules, or ground coffee. To my surprise they pretty-much work! Now whenever I go through a town with a real/Colesworth supermarket, I buy some fresh milk and have actual, real, fresh coffee out in the bush!