Alice Springs Reptile Centre

7.11.11
In 4 hours we made it to Alice Springs where we spent the night on a Campground. My next train leaves Thursday... so I'm stuck here in Alice Springs until then.

8.11.11
8 a.m = 30°C, 12 p.m = 40°C! This is just Hell!
Basically we just went from airconditioned building to airconditioned building. It was just too hot to …

Saturday 24th March 2012

Daily verse
I will never leave you or forsake you. Joshua 1:5

Neil's notes
As we came into Alice Springs Neil said, "This is civilised."

Heidi’s heart
I woke up at 5:30am to go to the toilet. The toilet/shower block was full of girls making themselves look beautiful. They were …

Nachdem wir die letzten Tage immer früh aufgestanden sind, konnten wir heute wieder mal ausschlafen und dann entspannt frühstücken.

Reptile Centre
Da das Flying Doctors Museum nicht geöffnet hat sind wir ins gegenüber liegende Reptile Centre gegangen, was sehr interessant war. Zufällig war auch eine Vorführung mit Möglichkeit die …

Alice Springs isn't at all what I expected! I assumed it would still be the small dusty frontier town I'd read about, extremely remote and isolated (in fact, as late as the mid 1950s the only contact its 4000 residents had with the rest of Australia was a weekly train from Adelaide). In fact it is a generic town complete with McDonlds, Kmart and …

... perenti, which is a large reptile (upto a couple of metres long). On this occassion Steve was handling the Perenti belonging to Alice Springs Reptile Centre. They advised him not to handle the Perenti as they have a bit of a bite. Steve did not take ...

... We had a very enjoyable day for Kathryn's birthday ( i made sure there was very chocolaty cake)!  Yesterday we went to the reptile center and held an olive python (i want one) and three very strange species of Lizard one of which looked like a ...

... , a blue-tongued skink and another lizard of some sort, and then to the Royal Flying Doctors Service Command Centre and Museum, and then the Alice Springs Telegraph Station, which is the original site of alice springs. Other than that, I just rested up ...

... in the pool with us and would even jump directly on to us. So anyway we have finally made it to Alice Springs and yesterday we visited the Reptile centre. Dan stayed in bed but the rest of us got to see a bunch of snakes and various lizards, including ...

... to Alice Springs to relax before flying back to Melbourne the following day. After arriving in Alice Springs in the afternoon we went to see the reptile centre where we got up close and personal with the reptiles there. We were introduced to ...

... outback now!!! Alice Springs is a very quaint town with pretty parks and sitting areas in the center. I went to the reptile center and held Gavin the python and lily the Lizard and also to the flying dr's center - do you remember that Aussie soap ...

... things to visit are the Royal Flying Doctor Service which provides medical support to an area twice as big as Germany, a reptile centre and hot walks to the old telegraph station. Anything else? A few quick conversations with Aborigines (those that ...

... donations to survive despite being such a neccesity for everyone in central australia. next stop just across the road was the alice springs reptile centre where we get some hands on contact with snakes, skinks, lizards and goannas. glad we've found out ...

... celebrating before collapsing in bed. The next day we spend part of the day walking around the few shops in Alice Springs and visit the Reptile centre there, where we get to hold a couple of lizards and a python which is really heavy and a lot softer ...

... felt our skin would burn away. Our skin was very dry and we didn’t believe that we would need any sun screen. The reptile centre was pretty cool. I was finally able to see lots of snakes and was even allowed to hold one around my neck. Scary! That ...