Travelling from Queensland to the NT is a long haul. We only stop for lunch at some roadhouse area and then move onto a selected rest area. After leaving Mt Isa, we camped our first night at Camooweal Qld - it is a huge area along a billabong and campers are able to camp alongside the billabong for a distance of 3 kms. The billabong had lovely waterlillies flowering. The photo on this blog was taken from inside our van looking out to the billabong. The foll...

After driving about 450kms from Alice Springs, we arrive at the Yalara Resort Campground. It is a large campground with a lovely pool. Yalara was built to accomodate tourist coming to visit the rock. It has a supermarket and a few shops and a coffee shop run by Indigenous students in training for the hospitality industry. As it was Allens birthday, we had coffee and cake there. The rock is unbelievable, absolutely fantastic, gobsmakingly beautiful. No photo...

Today we did a trip out to various locations in the West Macdonnell Ranges. We travelled 130kms to Glen Helen Gorge for our first attraction. It is so dry out here, all the river beds are just busand but there is usually a pool of water at the gorges and Glen Helen was the same. Not a bad gorge but nothing else out here although there claims to be a 'resort' it was a joke. We then turn toward Alice Springs to visit the other attractions. The next once was Or...

We arrived in Alice on the 25th Oct and set up at the Heritage Caravan Park as they are the only ones in town that allow dogs. Two others also allow dogs but are about 10km further out of town. After setting up we visited Anzac Hill which overlooks Alice and was amazing. Alice is surrounded by a mountain range on all sides, with a gap cut through the rock to travel south and out of town.....truely amazing. Then we rang Lorrie, our friend we met in Bali, to ...

After a long day on the road, nothing much to stop to see, we stopped at Ti Tree for the night. We met a couple from NZ who have been traveling Oz for nearly two years. We had a few drinks with them, then dinner, and then we crashed for the night.......so tired, and of course, the drinks helped.