Amazing couple of days. Have been up to close hill to watch the sunset every night and have felt energised and amazed by where we are and what we are doing. It seems to get better each night. It has been colder and cloudier the past few days and we had a heavy storm that bucketed down on the campsite but the sunset seems to encompass the energy seen within the weather changes producing amazing rainbows and other breathtaking effects. Went to Uluru and the Olgas ...

Wow!! I am so excited to be at the red centre and to be staying in the most incredible free camp, just outside Uluru in the beautiful red sand dunes. I just went for a walk up to the closest hill and from the top could see Uluru in all it's glory. It really is breathtaking. Sam and i took numerous photos but hope to get even better ones tomorrow night. We have come from Coober Pedi stopping on the way at a free camp at Marla and then on the SA/NT border which we...

Arrived in Coober Pedi on the 3rd. Luuk has been here before but it was my first time. I imagined it to be much larger than it is. I always judge the size of a town these days by whether there is a physiotherapist, but unfortunately too small for that. Those poor sore old opal miners! Luuk found a massage therapist attached to an underground hotel who also worked at the hotel for her family therefore she was kind enough to see Luuk. Amazing little town, not as ...

Marree to Williams Creek Wow!! What a day. Planned on stopping in Coward springs, a perfect distance for one day with the kids, from Marree. First part of the Oodnodatta track here we come! We drove along at around 60 kph comfortably looking at all the old Ghan railway ruins, water towers and one man towns. Sleepers from the old railway lie all along the road and would probably only be good for firewood now but many have been collected over the years to use in p...

Parachilna to Maree Headed off from our beloved Parachilna Gorge at around 10 a.m post Sam finishing 2 days of school work. Amazing kid, sometimes it can take two or three days to complete one days work and other times he can zoom through it like a speed train. It has nothing to do with difficulty level just his frame of mind at the time. We have learnt that on days when tears are approaching we just let it go and start again the next day or two days later rathe...