We left Tennant Creek around 9am after picking up morning coffees/hot chocs from Top of the Town, which we just had to return to. Couple of hours later we stopped at a place called Renner Springs, and it was a real oasis and had an interesting roadhouse with thousands of caps hanging from the rafters! For lunch we stopped at a place called Elliott - it had a lovely tree lined shady street parallel to the Stuart Highway, and quite nice for stop. A couple of h...

Renee & Eamon had a good clamber around the Pebbles this morning, while we packed up. It was a short 100km's to Tennant Creek, so no rush today. The only thing between the two places was quite a few deceased cows by the roadside. We arrived at Tennant Creek and did a couple of laps of the town. Actually, we were looking for a place to have brunch - we found the Top of the Town Cafe, which was manned by a couple of Asian people - the food was great and s...

4 weeks ago today we left Sydney, and the time has gone so fast! We've done about 5,500kms already, and we're having a fantastic time. We left early today from Alice Springs (though not before we could partake in the Sunday pancakes at our caravan park). We passed through the Tropic of Capricorn, and about 400km later after stops at Ti Tree and Barrow Creek we arrived at the Devil's Marbles in the early afternoon (~100km before Tennant Creek), and the hottes...

Wow, what a day today! The Henley on Todd Regatta is an annual event consisting of a myriad of boating events held on the Todd River which is a (usually) dry riverbed in the centre of Alice Springs. We found a spot at the Todd St Mall around 10.30am and the street parade went through - it was great and everyone was looking excited for the day's events. We followed the crowd over to the river and found a good vantage point on the hill - over the next few hour...

It became very windy overnight, so Greg had to attach the anti-flap supports early this morning, and we all ended up in the double bed together - not sure how much sleep we all got. Kicked off the day with a visit to the Alice Springs Desert Park. It's not far from Alice Springs and once we purchased our family pass + close encounter with an eagle pass we got our audio guides and off we went to walk around the well-signposted park: there were lots of bird ...