After an early departure from Alice, we arrived at Kings Canyon. Although we have already seen it before, we wanted to experience it together…without 120 school kids! Our drive in was spectacular, where all of the wild flowers were in abundance on the road sides. Well we can say it was stunning! Tara relived some fond memories that only people who attended Central 2013 would know and understand. Let's just say the first climb up the rim of the walk is a ki...

En route to Alice Springs, we visited the Devils Marbles...more rocks!Alice Springs, we had only booked for three nights and that's all we needed. We were going to check the MacDonnell Ranges, but we were a bit rocked/gorged/ranged out! So we had a Wentworth marathon. Thanks to whoever put the series on our hard drive. We are hooked! After getting through all three seasons of 'Orange is the New Black', we found comfort in yet another female prison series. Now ...

After a short drive (only a couple of hundred kms) we pulled into Daly Waters. The historical old pub. FINALLY, Tristan could have a beer… He had been there three times before on school camp and had always had a lemon squash or a sarsbarella. This time it was "a pint of VB thanks mate!" To this day, it was the coldest and tastiest beer he has ever had. Whilst having a drink we bumped into an old fella doing the same. JL was his name- 'John JL Liston', he e...

After much needed rest in the hotel from our whirlwind trip back to Melbourne… We were on the road again. Somehow Tristan managed to lose his sunglasses between the airport and the car… No idea! We were headed for Bitter Springs. After a quick stop in Katherine for supplies, we were only an hour from our next stop. Bitter Springs, a beautiful hot spring that literally carries you downstream through some of the clearest water we have seen to date. Mind y...

As we pulled into Tumbling Waters Caravan Park, we didn't know what to expect… only that everyone we had spoken to had stopped there during their time in Darwin. A beautiful bush setting with friendly owners… a swimming pool (thank god!!) and a really nice and cheap restaurant. Our first night we thought we had better treat ourselves, everything on the menu was only $15.00 and beers were five. And it was worth every cent! The night was followed by some live...