We reached Lukes friends property set up the vans washed and cleaned this morning and relaxed. Later in the afternoon we went to the Mindel Markets, there were a lot of stalls we all had a smoothy while we wandered through the stalls. Bought some nuts ,a dress and an anklet for Ella, Joy , and myself.There was a band from Malasian and Indonesian military and navy. They had drums symbles and trumpets ,they were throwing battons they were very clever. We decided ...

First thing we did was go for a swim the pool was lovely. We went down to the river and hired 3 canoes for half a day and set off down to the gorge it was realy pleasant paddling along except our canoe was like a woolies trolly it kept wanting to go to the left, Joy said it was opperator error. We got down to the first gorge it was so hot so we went for a swim in the shallows clothes and all while watching out for crocks We walked over the rocks to the second gor...

This morning we are leaving the devils marbles and heading for Katherin this will be our longest drive so far.. One thing that broke the boredom of the drive were the termite hills they are all shapes and sizes and people have dressed them. There was one with a dress hat and camera around its neck,, a santa, some in fluro shirts and hard hats, some just with shirts. John and Ella saw bush turkeys. Finally reached Katherin and camped at the gorge caravan park had ...

Today we are heading for the Devils Marbles where we will meet up with Joy and Luke again. We passed 3 eagles having breakfast on the side of the road, passed over the tropic of capricorn felt the bump. We passed a town called Aldiston with a huge statue of an aborigine standing on the hill. We were the first to reach the camp ground then by 7pm it was full, once Joy and Luke arrived and we set up we went for a walk around the Marbles, its hard to believe they d...

This morning Joy and Luke left to meet up with Michelle and Adrian at Helena gorge, we drove out to the Alice Spring sign and took some photoes. We then went to the Truck and Transport museum there was a realy good display of trucking history and even two brand new trucks never been used , there was also railway memorabillia. Then we drove out to Simpsons Gap it was very pretty the coloures in the rock with a little pond at the base, walking back up the sandy wat...