Would you stay here - Glen Helen Resort ( Last Resort ) ? - Tuesday 16th October 2012 This is the grumpy Intrepids doing battle with a Caravan Park again, blog. The scenery and other places we saw on this part of our trip were too good to mix in with the disgusting state of the Caravan Park. Without putting enough thought into it we booked in for 3 nights at what is very loosely called the Glen Helen Resort, we have renamed it the Glen Helen Last Resort. I ev...

Alice is Wonderland -Friday 12th October 2012 Our faith in Big 4 caravan parks was restored as we checked into the MacDonnell Range Caravan Park in Alice Springs. This is the most awarded caravan park in the Northern Territory and you can see why. Riding into town then out through the "Gap" in the MacDonnell Ranges to the caravan park brought back memories for me. I was here in 1975 just after Cyclone Tracey had hit Darwin. After a quick trip to town and t...

Beautiful Barkly Homestead and Weird Wycliffe Well - 10th & 11th October 2012 We were out of bed just on sunrise and all packed ready to beat the heat on our day's ride. On the road by 8:00am and already 30 degrees and it would get to 40 degrees before the day was over. We had broken out our gel filled water soaked neckies for the first time since we left home in February. They act as an evaporative air conditioner on your neck and as a lot of blood flows t...

Mount Isa Qld, Mighty Mining Town: (Saturday 6 through to Tuesday 9 October 2012) Our ride from Cloncurry to Mount Isa was an easy short one, being only about 118 km, and through really beautiful breakaway rocky hilly country. The rocks are a light orange colour. We had to watch out for the usual brown hawks again, feeding on road kill. And we arrived in Mount Isa at 10am. First choice was a caravan park near town and shops, but an inspection of their camp kitc...

Outback ride to Cloncurry 5th October 2012 Just a short one today so we have a chance to look at Cloncurry. Trish flew past there in 2004 without a stop to look. Even though we have been travelling in some outback areas we are never bored with the scenery. From open dry pastoral grasslands we were now getting into gradual winding roads through low hills. There had been some recent fires and the regrowth on the grasses and trees was a luminous green against t...