G'Day from Alice Springs We are now back from or trip out into the bush and want to tell you all about it so here is our last 4 days worth of news!!! Monday 1st October It was up at 5am so we could be collected by our guide for the next 3 days. From Alice Springs to Uluru is approximately a 450km 6 hour drive, hence the early start. An hour into the journey we made our first stop of the day at Stuarts Well Camel Farm. We both had a go riding a camel which was ...

G'Day Well here we are we have finally made it down to 'The Alice' as the locals say. It was a short 22 hour bus trip this time so nothing too heavy!!! On the way down we passed several bush fires, including a massive fire that was raging at the back of a petrol station. Needless to say our driver hot footed it out of there quickly. Mel had her nightly visit from the flying cockroaches she is like Dr Doolittle of the insect world!!!! It is hot here but no hu...

G'Day Today has been a much more successful day than yesterday's efforts. As usual it started early and we were speeding down Stuart Highway towards the Adelaide River for our date with the crocs that inhabit the river. It is estimated that about 3000 live in the river systems around Darwin and once on the boat we could see why. They were popping up out of the water all over and this was the one boat we did not want to sink!!!! The skipper assured us that if it...

G'Day Well no lie in this morning, we headed into town to pick up our photos that we had taken while snorkelling and diving at the Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef, nearly all of them came out OK. Then we went to find ourselves a trip to Litchfield National Park and crocodile feeding which we did successfully and will be doing tomorrow. It was so hot again today that we took refuge at the movies for a couple of hours. The big surprise on leaving was that the ...

G'Day Well the bus trip must have really taken it out of us as we slept in till 11am today!!! Once up you can't move fast around here as you end up like a wet sponge in about 2 minutes, the humidity is phenomonal it hits you as soon as you leave a lovely air conditioned building!! We had a slow walk on the Esplanade today and had great views of the Arafura Sea before wondering around the streets of Darwin. We hit the pool mid afternoon to cool down and refresh...