Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve

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 …

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 …

This morning we caught up on laundry, shopping, etc. This afternoon we went into Alice Springs and checked out the Information Centre. We then drove up to the top of Anzac Hill where you can look out over Alice Springs. We then went out to the old Telegraph Station. This has been beautifully restored and they have even put in some furniture and …

... eat anything smaller than they are! They are, apparently, a problem I town and have to be captured and moved to the wild. Telegraph Station Historical Reserve:  This historical park is very nicely done - - it is a short way out of town and is very ...