Exactly this - tires can be a bigger impediment to travel than fuel - can be easier to get hold of more fuel in the outback than the tires you need. If you rea

Exactly this - tires can be a bigger impediment to travel than fuel - can be easier to get hold of more fuel in the outback than the tires you need. If you read it with that in mind it makes perfect sense: Although the team knows of ten other carved boabs that, at least at one time, stood sentinel over the red-earthed landscape, they had no way of accessing them during their survey without off-road vehicles with “endless” tires.