Nice and flat, easy to level the caravan and the views, well they were incredible and we were the only ones here. It seemed too good to be true. The trip in had been an adventure as we negotiated the muddy track, water across the track in places and rocks and ditches that jostled the…
When the blue cloudless skies and sunshine, of the Northern Territory and northern South Australia, greet you every morning it is difficult to accept the dramatic weather change we are now experiencing. When we stopped at Terowie, South Australia, it was the first night we were not able to have our evening meal outside and…
Okay, maybe not Rocket Town but we did camp north of Woomera at Lake Hart which was one of the testing areas for the Australian and American Joint Defence Facility Nurrungar (JDFN). Nurrungar is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘listen’ and the base’s mission was to provide a reliable satellite-borne surveillance system to detect and report…
One of the 65 tours offered at Uluru is a camel ride at sunset/sunrise. Each camel is fitted with a two-seater saddle and large trains of them are haltered together to plod ceremoniously across the desert dunes at each end of the day. Our pleasurable activities are governed by the size of our piggy bank…
Beautiful and weather-beaten, the MacDonnell Mountain Ranges that stretch 400km across the desert in Central Australia, are a different world with spectacular gorges, mountain gaps, chasms and natural swimming holes. The ranges spread east and west of Alice Springs and known respectively as the East and West MacDonnells. They are 600 meters above sea level…
Our second day in the West MacDonnell Ranges was more interesting than the first, which had already been amazing. We left Ellery Creek Big Hole before lunch heading west towards Ormiston Gorge where we hoped to camp for the night. Back on the main road we followed the ranges stopping frequently to play with our…
We have been grey nomading through the Northern Territory of Australia for a while now so it is time for some fun facts before we get down to more funny business when I tell you about the only waterless boat race on the globe. Alice Springs has the largest number of art galleries per capita…
