17th June 2016 Today we decided to stay in Alice Springs one more night, biding time for the Oodnadatta track to open. During the day today it opened to vehicles under 3 tonne, this still excludes us with the van, we see this as a positive sign and hopefully it will be open for us soon. We drove out to Palm Valley in the Finke Gorge National Park. (This is where we planned to go almost a week ago, but the we felt the town close by was not suitable to leave o...

11th June 2016 We headed onto Kings Canyon today. The good weather meant that we could see Mt Conner this time as we passed. We dropped the van in Kings Canyon Resort and headed out to Kings Canyon to complete the 6km rim walk. This walk starts with a very steep climb up the rock stairs to the top of the Canyon. You then walk around the top of Canyon with fantastic views down into the Canyon and across to the other side and finishes with a slower decent bac...

7th June 2016 We wake up to a delightful red sunrise over the desert, there are only a few clouds around. It's so nice being in these bush camps, there are a few other campers, however we have space around and are not lined up side by side like in a caravan park and no annoying street lights. Soon after sunrise the clouds set in and the rain starts. At the Mount Connor lookout the cloud is so thick we cannot see it. (Mount Connor is a big rock that first t...

5th June 2016 We need jumpers on this morning, it's the first time in 6 weeks. We are a bit over the heat and appreciate the cooler night and morning. Up and off early again this morning. The Devils Marbles was the first stop. The Devils Marbles are great big marble shaped boulders, thus the name. Big man walk, a small road house on the way was quite unique. The artist has made these massive sculptures that stand out km's away. The one on the hill is a...

31st May 2016 We depart Darwin, heading for Litchfield National Park. Within Litchfield National Park there is only one place where caravans are allowed to stay, Wangi Falls. A recent comment on Wikicamps indicates that the sites are impossible to get a larger van in. So we take head of the comments and leave the van in a caravan park in Bachelor, about 10kms off the entrance to Litchfield. At Wangi Falls we see we could have got our van in to about half of...