4am - woken by a small child screaming5am - woken by an alarm clockI woke first and pretty promptly got the girls dressed in their sleep. Alex summed things up, I am sleepy, It's stupid o'clock. We all agreed ! In any case by 5:45am we were ready at reception, checked out with our bags awaiting collection, miracles do happen ! I had managed a quick shower which briefly turned me into Tigger but I very quickly became more like Eeyore. Anyway the bus arrived a...

Today was a vague lie in but given the time change etc we were up and about at 8:30am. We decided to take a walk to the resort centre 8 - 10 minutes across the dunes and it was hot, red and full of flies. When walking through we came across a Thorny Devil, what an amazing creature ! It looks like it is covered in leaves and moves really, really slowly.We ate breakfast at the deli and it was nice enough but the service was very slow given we had nothing very com...

Up and out from the hotel at around 8am so we had plenty of time to get to the airport. The journey there was really easy and checkin was fine except for the booking booths giving us emergency exit seats and faffing around with changing that, to be fair it was minimal. The flight to Alice Springs was good and the view out of the window was breathtaking in it's emptiness and desolation. It is a little like the surface of Mars but with trees.When we arrived in A...