Day 1 Bronnie ( short for Bronwyn - the aussies add « ie » or y » to everyone's name. My friend Brian in Sydney calls me « Stewie » ) our guide for the next 6 days picked us up from our hotel in Alice Springs bright & early and good news straight away. Only 13 passengers for the trip instead of 21. And thank goodness for that as the Toyota minibus was built for 21 small japanese people to do short urban trips not for 1M85 europeans to do 2000km. There ...

Arrived in Alice Springs the day before our 6 day trip through the outback. Suprisingly it was not nearly as hot as Queensland. Good news no biting sand flies. Bad news swarms of house fly type things. We got used to these over the next 5 days - you had to or you'd go mad with them.They might have got in your ears/mouth/nose but at least they didn't bite and in fact there were no biting insects at all. Alice Springs is a strange sort of town. Hundreds of miles f...