Getting fit in the desert

We've been training for our cycle trip. There aren't any sealed roads around Djugerari (where we've been teaching for the last few years) or anywhere else in the Great Sandy Desert, and there are even less cyclists. We have been cycling almost every day for the past few months and have built this up from 10 km a day to around 20km on work days and between 40 and 70km on weekends. This is hard going on the dirt tracks and corrugated tracks, so sometimes we just ride up and down the airstrip, which is still a gravel track, but less bumpy. This picture is about 5 km from Djugerari.

"I wonder what that guy with the camera is doing in the middle of the desert???"

Here's a map of WA. You will find the Great Sandy Desert in the northern part. Djugerari Community can be found at Google Earth. GPS coordinates:  18  59  18.77S,  125  30  40.31E

Here is a fellow traveller in the desert. It's a King Brown snake. They are very poisonous. Also commonly found are Death Adders (the name says it all) and Black Headed Pythons, which are not poisonous and good to eat if you like bush tucker.

This snake is not actually alive, otherwise I would probably not be this close.