Whilst we have phone signal I’ll catch up on the photos and our journey,
We wanted to visit Edith Falls - again, it’s been 10 years or so since last time so time for a revisit. The weather is HOT and not having anything booked on the NT parks site we decided to camp 20k prior to the park and go in the next day. Well .. it was bloody hot and parked up in a dusty free camp area wasn’t the most enjoyable… but we toughed it out. The next morning we drove in and checked out the area, very little water over the falls but Dave had his customary dip - and that’s all it was .. Coffee & Cake at the cafe and we were on our way.
Our next overnight stop was at the WW2 McDonald Airstrip, an excellent place well away from the highway with kilometres of space and almost unlimited firewood. Lots of noisy Apostle Birds to keep us interested also.
Further South we visited Devils Marbles another revisit for us and surprised to see you can no longer climb around on the rocks, also the free camping is now controlled by the NT parks system. We walked around and moved on, we stayed a night at another great camp spot just a few kilometres before Barrow Creek, a great backdrop of hills around us.
We are now at Alice Springs, staying at the Motor Transport museum (which is awesome - photos in a seperate post)
We have been into Town during the day, the usual shops and visit to Bunnings, lunch at the Casino and donated a few dollars .. having been here a few times we have no interest in revisiting The Rock, Kings Canyon etc, the Billy’s haven’t been before so they have headed off for a week to do the tourist things and we intend to catch up around Coober Pedy.
Edith Falls NT
Edith Falls NT
Edith Falls NT
WW2 McDonald Airstrip
Sunset at the Old Airstrip
Our Camp for the night at McDonald Airstrip
Just some pretty flora
The Historic and Interesting Larimah Hotel
Larrimah Hotel, during WW2 Larrimah was a RAAF Base
Larrimah Hotel, also known as the Pink Panther Pub
A walk around the hotel and old buildings
History lesson on Larrimah
Plenty of old WW2 memorabilia
Inside a building, the remains of what looks like the communications centre
Vickie showing off her strength
Happy couple photo
PUSH !
OOPS .. who Farted
Devils Marbles
Our camp for the night, this was our back ground view
A walk up the hill for an over view of our camp
Welcome to Alice Springs
Todd Mall Market
Pretty Bougainvillea
The Old and the New, The historic Residence with the modern Court House behind
Main St Alice, Alice is an eye opener ... sadly some of the locals run amuck, vandalising buildings and cars.
No comments:
Post a Comment