Alice & The Red Centre NT (June & July - 21 days!!)

We have all really loved our time in the ‘Red Centre’. We have found Alice Springs to be quite captivating and certainly very unique. The landscape has been spectacular…gorges, water holes, breathtaking escarpments and canyons across the east and west Macdonnell ranges. Uluru and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) were definitely a highlight. We admired the ‘rock’ from the ground, refraining from the climb out of respect for the Anangu peoples wishes (and not to mention our mutual fear of heights). We were awed by the magnitude of Kata Tjuta and walked in marvelling at the towering rock walls. Kings Canyon wasn’t quite what we were expecting, but we didn’t get the view from the top, being only able to do the base walk with the kids. We did have a great night there though celebrating Harrison’s 7th birthday out for dinner, which was fun.

We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Garnie and Poppy (Tim’s parents) and were all quite teary (Hannah howling actually) at the airport farewelling them. We have since enjoyed some great catch-ups with Kate’s sister Jane holidaying with a friend who lives in Alice.

We have been in the new van for 10 days now and all is going well. It’s virtually the same, so it’s hard to believe when we sit in here at night recording these thoughts that we ever had that horrible couple of weeks at all! We feel so grateful to be back on the road again, able to continue this amazing journey around oz!

Georgie is finally starting to take off with her walking, and can now take around 5-6 steps at a time before joining us in squeals of delight at her achievement! She continues to entertain us every day and has even learnt to do somersaults on the ‘jumping pillow’ at the caravan park, care of the big kids coaching.

We leave Alice tomorrow and begin our journey towards Darwin (also Kakadu, Litchfield N.P., Katherine etc.).