Alice Springs Desert Park

Levé a 6:45 pour partir tôt vers Alice Springs. Au déjeuner j'ai enfin gouté la fameuse vegemite sur ma tartine, et c'est pas si terrible que ça finalement. Ça a le même gout que de l'oxo pur étalé sur le pain, c'est abominablement salé, mais pas si degueu qu'on le dis, d'ailleurs j'ai mangé toute la tartine avec.
Après je suis allé au Desert …

Finally some SUN and BLUE SKY and WARMTH!!

When we got up today Mum had planned a few things, the first was to go to a lookout called Anzac Hill and we got a good view of the town and the surrounding hills with a thick patch of fog covering some areas.

Then we headed to the famous Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. It was in a …

Up early for brekkie and flight to Alice Springs.

On the way from the Airport, we stopped in town and visited Mbantua Fine Art Gallery & Cultural Museum, see MAP, GPS(23 42 04 48S, 133 52 59.31E). They gave us an excellent tour and lecture on aboriginal art. The was also a film of the artists and the gallery's dealings with them in …

Well - we have been a bit busy this week - 62 people including 52 Year 6 students from a school in Alice Springs for 3 days. We have 66 beds! Keeping up the toilet paper supply was a task on its own!They left on Friday after lunch, and a leadership training camp for selected Year 10 students from all the schools in Alice arrived on Saturday …

Today we went the the Alice Springs Desert. It was FREEZING cold without any wind. So much for the hot red centre. That said this is an unusually cold cold snap for here and it appears to be belting it's way across most of eastern Australia. (good for the snow season we are missing).

The Desert park was excellent. The bird show was much …

Today we got up early and went to the Alice Springs Desert Park. Carl and I had come here 13 years ago when it had only been opened about a year. Back then all the plants were just seedlings and you could look out and see across the whole park. Wow – what a difference now. All the trees and plants have grown really big.

We saw the …

... anyone passing through Alice to try and make time to get to one of the feeding time talks. The next day I went to the Alice Springs Desert Park. I seem to remeber this costing a bit to get in, but it was very interesting and I think, had I had ...

... wind (PICS). Leaving the Devils Marbles we drove across the Tropic of Capricorn (PIC) and then completed the journey to Alice Springs (PIC), arriving in the Red Centre's most famous town at mid-afternoon. After driving around the town we visited ...

We left a beautiful day in Cairns to head to Australian's Famous Outback and Ayers Rock and the main arrival point is Alice Springs. Alice Springs is the largest town in the Northern Territory, and as we drove through it we realized that there just ...

... restaurant in Sydney.  It's a matter of preferences, we guess.   Bottom line: you must see the Desert Park if you ever get to Alice Springs.  It is well worth it! We spent the rest of the day visiting the old telegraph station and the ...

... town and the surrounding hills with a thick patch of fog covering some areas. Then we headed to the famous Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. It was in a great setting of small hills, grass and gums all over the joint. The buildings and the history ...

The rains died down and we spent the last day in Alice checking out the excellent Desert Park, complete with all things nocturnal and/or dangerous as well as showing you that things do grow in the desert and yes, a buzzard can open an emu's egg by ...

... . For as far as the eye could see it was desert, no towns and just one road that links the north to central Australia. Alice Springs is a small town literally miles and miles from anywhere. The population is made up of Aborigines and lots of other ...

... course more kangaroos.  After lunch we got dropped off at the old telegraph station where the oldest building in central Australia is and where Alice Springs started.  After a slight mishap with the bus (we missed it but it came back) we ...

... . We played it the whole time we were there. It was very cold at night & we were looking forward to some warmer weather. On to Alice springs & yes it was warm! But not for long. We awoke to rain this morning & the temp has not gone over 9c all day!! Is ...

... is to the people of the Outback and the Northern Territory. The next day we headed out of town a bit to the Alice Springs Desert Park, basically a nature reserve set up to show people how life exists in such a harsh climate and the different areas ...