Day 120 - Coober Pedy - Monday 13th February 2012 After another early start and some breakfast, we continued through the arid scenery towards our next destination, Coober Pedy. Along the way we did our usual stops at various garages but the most interesting was the border crossing from the Northern Territory over to South Australia. It was literally a line in the sand! We walked over and back several times and did the usual wow's at the time difference a border ...

Day 119 - Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) - Sunday 12th February 2012 Well that was the best night's sleep in a tent so far, literally as soon as our heads hit our inflatable pillows we were in the land of nod! The alarm sounded at 3.45am this morning and we were up and ready pretty quick for our most exciting day yet, starting with sunrise at Uluru (Ayres Rock). Nothing in Australia is as identifiable as this place, no matter how many times you ha...

Day 118 - The outback tour starts! Kings Canyon - Saturday 11th February 2012 Just as we were drifting into a dream filled sleep, the alarm went off. 4am was here! We dragged our bags into the hallway and quickly packed ready for our pick up. The ever charming lady behind the front desk grunted at us to leave our sheets in the pile so we quickly checked out and bundled into the van. Our tour guide was Jim; a very friendly guy in a proper Australian style hat (mi...

Day 117 - Alice Springs - Friday 10th February 2012 We arrived at Cairns airport and checked in and wandered around the airport before our 11.25am flight. The check in guy had told us that the plane would start boarding at 11.05 and come 11.08 we were being called by our full names over the airport loudspeaker to board the plane! Cairns airport is one efficient place! Once on the plane we realised that it was empty, hence the early call we assumed, and sat for t...

Day 116 - The Great Barrier Reef - Thursday 9th February 2012 We woke up excited about today's trip of snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef; although Ad was a tad nervous as snorkelling goes against his 'no water above the nipples rule'! We'd booked with Aristocrat and our ride picked us up outside our place and before we knew it we were boarding the boat. To our surprise it was busy - where had all the people come from? We'd spent days wandering Port Douglas...