hello.....sorry it has been a while but sitting at a computer these days seems to be a bit of a task!!! Well, we made it through our weeks stay in Alice Springs, and when it came to it I wasn't brave enough to hold the snake! So adios Alice and hello East Coast- sun, sea, sand and plenty of scantily clad young bronzed men......ha! We left Alice Springs in a 4x4 bus which was to take us another 3000km across baron desert to Cairnes. Luckily the bus was...

So..... we get up at some ungodly hour of 5am to catch the bus up to Alice. So we wait, and we wait and the bloody bus never turns up! GREAT- luckily the office was open and we just got a taxi to the office and the bus met us there where we didn't actually leave until 7am- which means we could have stayed in bed for another few hours!!! Not a good start! After catching up on some sleep on the bus we had to do the obligatory welcome speech where you have to intr...