Next, we visited the Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum. The Flying Doctors (RFDS for short), has been servicing the medical needs of remote Australia since 1928, and though we now live in a technological age, their services are more needed than ever.

The Alice Springs base began in 1939, and currently services an area of 1.25 square kilometres – that’s more than the size of South Africa or more than five times the size of the UK. It’s a large area, so they need a good, modern fleet of planes.

These planes host a medical team as well as vital medical equipment that enables patients to be treated and transported, no matter their condition.

The service is so essential to Aussies in these parts that there always seems to be a fundraiser for the RFDS in many outback towns I’ve visited. Coastal Aussies might only know of the service from TV, but perhaps it’s one that should be better supported by them, because you never know when you might need a flying doctor, particularly if you’re planning on travelling the Outback.

We really only got a glimpse of the Red Centre landscape, but I can’t help be enchanted by the white-trunked gum trees.

There were a few specimens at the Telegraph Station, and some were quite an age.

I loved the details of that smooth trunk, that isn’t as white as it seemed from afar.