The Conscious Traveller: How is Australia’s driest state adapting to water scarcity, heat and fire?

SOUTH AUSTRALIA – The open-sided Land Cruiser vehicle creeps along the stony ridge, twin tyre tracks scratched into a precarious mountaintop and illuminated in the late afternoon rays.

Tussocks of spiky grass and grey saltbushes dot steep hillsides, and far below in the dry creek bed, mighty river red gum trees stretch their roots deep, towards underground moisture.