Saturday 17th of January I arrived in Alice Springs. Booked myself accommodation at the Heavitree Gap resort before I left and was pleased to find out in my guidebook that it was a recommended place and that you could feed rock wallabies there! Yay, I thought, thought sounds really fun. I also thought that being a hostel meant that I could meet a few people there, have some sort of social life! Stepped off the plane and found out from some other people the...

Last day in Alice Springs as I flew out to Melbourne early on Saturday morning.Had an easy day today after my 4-day tour.The weather in Alice is soooo hot as well, that I really didn't want to be baking myself outside anymore!I ended up having a nice breakfast in town and then going to the Flying Doctors visitors centre - don't laugh!!I know it seems tame after being in the Red Centre, but it was actually really interesting.Having avidly watched the soap with my ...

Getting up at 6am was like luxury!!We went down to Palm Valley first of all, for a nice morning walk.Palm Valley is the only place where the Red Cabbage Palm grows.Why they called it a Red Cabbage palm is anyones guess because it's as green as a palm should be and it doesn't resemble any sort of cabbage at all let alone a red one!!Apparently early english people named things that reminded them of home, but at least they could have called it a green cabbage palm!!...