Outback Adventure 2019 Day 19 Mount Isa - Cloncurry - McKinlay (Walkabout Creek Hotel) We went mining today so we needed to get up early to get underway. Unfortunately the flies also decided to wake up at the same time! We left our campsite just before 8 to head into Mount Isa to see if we could do the Hard Times Mine tour. It’s a tour we couldn’t do last time we were up this way because Cayla was too young. The 9am tour was booked out but they had asked ...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 18 Karla Karla (Devils Marbles) - Tennant Creek - Threeways Roadhouse - Barkly Homestead - Cammoweal - WW2 Historic Site (Barkly Highway) It was quite a hot night last night at the Marbles and so all the windows were open to let in the breeze which picked up to a gale during the night. We awoke at 6.30 to the most magical colours of the sunrise and so were quickly out of bed to watch what would materialise. Like last night- it didn...

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...