Alice Springs On our way from Curtain Springs to Alice Springs we did a slight detour off the highway into the Henbury Meteorite Craters. It was a short walk from the car park along the trail with some really good interpretive information at the biggest crater sites. On the way back out to the highway, we saw a dingo! The second one in two days, and this one hung around on the road long enough for us to get some video and photos. We arrived in Alice Springs late...

Kings Canyon It took about 2.5 hours to get out to Kings Canyon from our overnight camp spot and Callen slept nearly all the way, which was good because he had woken up early with a stuffed up nose. We had a picnic lunch at the beginning of the canyon walk before starting out and decided to just do the shorter Kings Creek walk. The canyon rim walk would have been spectacular but it would have been very hard with Callen! The walk along the creek bed was easy and ...

Well it took us 2 days to get here from Coober Pedy but we finally made it! We woke early so that we could drive to the National Park to see Uluru at sunrise. We were a little late but it was still spectacular to see the desert colours changing as the sun came up and then shadows highlight Uluru itself. From the second lookout, it was a short drive after breakfast to start our first walk to Mutitjulu Waterhole. This was a nice, easy walk and we were able to take ...

Coober Pedy We were sooooo glad to see Coober Pedy!!! After surviving the gravel/sand/potholes/rock-boulders of the Oodnadata and William Creek tracks, the bitumen was a welcome sight. But Coober Pedy is a complex town and perhaps not the most welcoming at first glance. Dirty, dusty, shop windows barred up and dogs roaming the streets. The caravan park we stayed at locked their gates (and therefore us inside) from 10pm to 6am. It looks like a WILD wild west town...

Oodnadatta Track - Marree to William Creek 2nd August 2012 -'Blame Everything on Alix Day' So if anything is going to go majorly wrong, it should happen today..... We leisurely packed up the bus at Marree in the morning before getting some fuel (at $1.95 per litre!) and hitting the Oodnadatta Track, with a little but of apprehension because we didn't know what the gravel road ahead would be like. It wasn't long before we stopped to check out some salt pans and...