Sat 4th August - We left Alice Springs in the morning and headed down the highway to the turn off at Erlunda. Again, not too much see along the way. Once we turned off the Stuart Highway we stayed at a free camp 100 km along the road. These camps are amazing. We always seem to get there early and pick the best spot and then as the afternoon progresses, more and more vans, cars and campers pull in. It feels like the nights are finally starting to warm up. Su...

Monday 30th July and Tuesday 31st July, 2012 - Once we left Ti Tree - and to be honest even when we were at Ti Tree - there was nothing to see until Alice Springs. We did, however, stop at a little Aboriginal Community along the way called Aileron (see the photos with the huge Aboriginal statues) and bought a painting. It will have to be framed when we get home. We thought we would do a little wandering around Alice and we checked out the info at the Tourist ...

Thu 26th July 2012 - After quite a noisy night (the free camp was pretty close to the highway) we headed for Camooweal. A very small town located pretty close to the Qld/NT border. We free camped again by the lake - well it was called Lake Francis but I think in the wet it becomes a river and is then called Georgina River. Both names were on the sign at the bridge. Regardless of what it's name was, it was the most beautiful place to stay. The birdlife was j...

Fri 20 July 2012. Left Richmond at around 8.10 am. Quite chilly - still some frost on the ground when we left. We drove on to Julia Creek and stopped for a coffee. The road here was so straight. In fact we went nearly 20km before there was a slight bend in the road - I wouldn't exactly call it a corner. Julia Creek was a lovely little town but there was a cold wind blowing and the locals were all complaining how cold it was. Once we left Julia Creek we dec...

Mon 16 July 2012. We left Longreach and headed up the road to Winton. Winton is known as the beginning of the Dinosaur Trail. We free camped behind the North Gregory Hotel which only takes about 10 vans. We were dwarfed in our little camper - huge caravans surrounded us. Once we parked we then walked down the road to the Waltzing Matilda Centre. Hard to believe they actually made a museum based on a song. It was quite interesting though. Banjo Patterson w...