Uluru (27.07.2012): Today is Adam's birthday. After a wee lie in we awoke for tea and present time complete with my decking of a birthday banner and balloons. Adam always takes his time with presents - even though he didn't have many. I made breakfast pancakes whilst Adam opened his last present: a helicopter flight over Ayers Rock. We have both never been in a helicopter before and it was an awesome and exhilarating experience. Adam rode in the front seat with ...

Kings Canyon / Kata Tjuta (26.07.2012): We awoke at 7am and after a quick morning tea we headed back to the canyon embarking on the 6km rim walk/climb (estimated to take 3.5 - 4 hours). There's a health warning before partaking in the walk - not for the faint hearted. The start of the walk is a very steep climb up the canyon - exhausting! It was definitely worth the exertion when we reached the top. We followed the walk around the rim of the canyon. The walk was...

Kings Canyon (25.07.2012): Woo. We are on our way the real 'Red Centre'. First stop a 130km retreat to Alice Springs. We awoke 300km from Kings Canyon but the road from the ranges is 4WD only so we have to travel 600km and back track! Boooo hoo. Our little camper has failed us. We fuelled up at Alice Springs and re-joined our old faithful Stuart Highway turning off at Erlunda and joining the Lasseter Highway taking us onto the Luritja Road - the path to Watar...

Alice Springs to West MacDonnell National Park (24.07.2012): Today we headed to Alice Springs' main attraction: Desert Park. The park is a biopark containing 2km of gentle paths winding through desert habitats containing plants and animals that call this place home. There is also a nocturnal house containing the desert creatures of the night. The aviaries and mammal enclosures are all extremely big and all walk through. We saw some amazing wildlife including a f...

Alice Springs (23.07.2012): The road from Devil's Marbles to Alice Springs is approximately 400km. We made a stop at Wycliffe Well first of all which has a reputation as being a hot spot for UFO sightings. It was a rather strange place. After a stop at Ti Tree to swap over driving we continued down the Stuart Highway. It is crazy that we have barely left this road. The scenery is getting monotonous now. It really is such a long straight road, most of the time...