Outback Adventure 2019 Day 17 Alice Springs - Aileron - Wycliffe Wells - Devils Marbles It was pancake day today for Easter Sunday. There were free pancakes on offer at the park in Alice Springs with some Easter eggs and out on the road there was sadly a pancaked Perentie courtesy of the Disco and a few pancake cows closer to the Devils Marbles! We got moving early this morning so that we could get the vans out of the park to allow us more time for pancakes. ...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 16 Alice Springs Today we explored the Desert Park in Alice Springs. It was great to see all the ‘local’ animal species like the Thorny Devil that we have been craving to see in the wild but have so far seen so little animal life in the Territory. The highlights of the park (for mine) are the native bird show with eagles, kites and even a magpie as well as seeing the Thorny Devils. We really enjoyed the talk on survival In th...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 15 Alice Springs - East Macdonnell Ranges - Alice Springs Today we ventured to the East Macdonnell Ranges - a place that we haven’t been to previously. It was an easy drive from the park to the Ross Highway which takes you out east to the other side of the Range. It is fair to say that the East Macdonnells are the poor cousin of the West Macdonnells. There really is chalk and cheese between the two. We drove out the 88kms to the...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 14 Alice Springs - West Macdonnell Ranges - Alice Springs Drive, walk, swot flies, swim, drive, walk, swot flies, swim. That pretty much summed up our day today. We left the caravans at 8.45am to begin our drive out to the West Macdonnell Ranges . It is a 130k drive out to Glen Helen Homestead which was our furthest point today - and we wanted to explore all the gorges, gaps and swimming holes in between. We started our exploration...

Our track so far. Covers our drives and hikes. 4809kms so far as of tonight at half time!