Royal Flying Doctor Service Alice Springs

Somebody must have enraged the Gods of thunder and lightning... Returning to Alive Springs after my 3-day camping-tour to the red center it looked like the apocalyptic weather had followed us from the desert.. No problem with that as it was time for me to not do much at all for a change other than catching up with world-news, food-shopping and …

Quote of the day:- 'We like lizards frilled not grilled' The Arnold family headed off today on their way to Lake Argile, safe travels we hope and hopefully we will see them maybe in Broome or in Southern Western Australia. We ran into the filming of 'I will survive' again, this time at Simpsons Gap. So cold, all the film crew and actors were in ski …

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 …

Our first day in Alice Springs was a busy one! First we visited the Royal Flying Doctor Service which works through a radio network to provide medical help to residents in the most remote areas of Australia. Later we visited the School of the Air which ...

... to go back into the wild again. After dragging ourselves away from the baby kangaroos we did a quick tour of the Royal Flying Doctor Service centre and learned about their history, how it got started and and how it operates today. When ...

We visited the Royal Flying Doctor Service that was established during the late 1920's by Rev. John Flynn to provide medical help to those in remote areas of Australia. The Flying Doctor works through a radio netowrk that keeps in touch with people in ...

... way in [No the CIA base was not one of them, I only violate national security once per vacation.] and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. First we visited the Royal Flying Dr. Service museum in town and had lunch.  The Flying Dr. Service ...

... spent most evenings curled up watching Neighbours/Blue Healers and even Jamies School Dinners! Anyways, we paid a visit to the Royal Flying Doctor service. Remember that really bad Aussie soap of the 80's called the Flying Doctors? Well, it's all ...

... ), air-con and a swimming pool. What more can one ask for? Amongst the few interesting 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 ...

we have a fantastic day here in the beautiful alice springs - the oasis in the desert! first stop is the royal flying doctor service museum where we find out all about how the unique aussie system works - bit like the rnli in the uk it relies on public ...

... – a fashion statement followed by (some) of the other children.  You trend setter Matt! RFDS The Royal Flying Doctor Service has a base right in the middle of Alice Springs that services a 600km radius (1.25 million square kilometres!) from ...

... had become a reality with the opening of the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service (later renamed the Royal Flying Doctor Service) in Cloncurry, Queensland.  By the 1950s, the RFDS was acknowledged by former Prime Minister Sir Robert ...

... we ordered room service and 'pigged-out' in! With a few hours before our Ghan train departure, we checked out the Royal Flying Doctors Service a few blocks away. The tour had displays, a movie and a talk! Great service that hopefully we wouldn't ...