Aurora Alice Springs

... this is all as inhospitable as a cyanide laced gut bomb, but life abounds everywhere. Just slowing down and opening my eyes truly blew me away with the world I uncovered. Someone in a rush might only see a cliff of jagged red rocks as they walk on by but stop, stay still and watch...a family of wallabees is tucked away in the crevices. <br><br>Keeping an open eye is also important to make it out alive. Numerous poisonous snakes ...

... satellite dish for the TV.<br>We arrived in Alice around midday, and by the time we set up, did the boring stuff like laundry, washing floors etc. etc. we then did some grocery shopping.<br>We went to a Twilight Market in the Todd Mall this evening. Lots of interesting Native Indigenous art work being sold by the artists themselves. Unfortunately we don't have room in our 5th wheeler for the art work.

... ankles on this section! We got to the bottom in tack! Until I nearly drowned when drinking water then nearly fell down a little hole! Lol. Well I need to add some drama to the day. All I can say it was a loooooooooong walk through the valley &#8211; no shade &amp; on an uphill gradient :( my poor legs were really tired &amp; Kiran was knackered. But again the views were amazing. So worth it! This trek was 7km is total. We then drove to Uluru to see the ...

... leaving at 6am and my friend had kindly offered to give me a lift &#8211; which she did - in her pyjamas &#8211; hope she didn&#8217;t break down on the way back!<br><br>And so to Alice Springs in the red centre of Australia where I had booked to go on a 5 day camping trip &#8211; no tents just sleeping under the stars in swag bags so that was going to be different from anything so far.<br><br>Flight went via Melbourne and all went well and on time. I had a window seat but I ...

... the coaches were booked for 10:30pm, so we were cleared and tidied by midnight this time (sometimes its 2am after the weddings!), so we all had a quiet drink at the bar after work, which is nice coz Nico finally gets to try what he's been serving all evening, and then gets to go home for a couple of hours sleep, before getting up again at 3am to do it all over again!

... house (mainly coz its air-conned, but also coz it has my favourite critters in there).<br> I've learnt a lot more about typical Aussie animals, like the lazy Kangaroo and various types of bird, but I've also taken a liking to the little Thorny Devil lizard, who is indicative of this desert area because he camouflages so well to the orange dusty soil and the prickly dry grasses ...