Alice on Todd

... of the ground. All in all, the nomenclature of this place is a little suspicious. Technically, the 'Springs' are a waterhole, and 'Alice' Todd never came to Alice Springs. Onwards again, we drove about 100 kilometres further before stopping for the ...

... mall, pubs, hairdressers, souvenir shops but with lots of other industrial units around to shop in. Alice Springs is so called after Alice Todd. She was the wife of Charles Todd and in 1865, they came to Australia and had the job of manning the first ...

... and shortly afterwards the repeater station was moved to a more central location in the hamlet that would eventually become Alice Springs, named after Alice Todd, wife of Sir Charles Todd. The old station on the fringes of Stuart became a home for ...

... how Alice began and also where what became known as the stolen generation came from.  I also visited the extremely dry Alice botanical gardens, which could not have been further from the Botanical Gardens in Cairns that I have seen only a week ...

... historic sites in the town and to chat with a local tour guide to get some insight into the background of 'The Alice'. The Todd River runs through Alice Springs and this is usually a dry riverbed as Alice doesn't typically receive much rain.  ...

... and were advised not to climb it because the track was covered in broken glass!  We also spent a fabulous morning at the Alice Springs Desert Park.  This place was amazing and we recommend it if you ever come out here.  The free audio tour ...

The first day was a day of leisure, arriving around midday at the Desert Palm resort. From the drive in Alice Springs appears quite spread out and arid. I am glad I am here in winter and not the heat of summer. I spent the afternoon strolling to the city ...

... Margaret sipping coffee at an outdoors café with a kiosk carrying the sign "Darwin City Centre" in the background. The flight to Alice Springs took less than two hours and we found QANTAS to be much superior to Virgin Blue. To be fair, the QANTAS ...

... our private room was, quirky, we thought!) Oo i stand corrected, there is one interesting thing about Alice....the river that runs through it, The Todd, is a little different to most rivers, see because this one has a considerable lack of flowing ...

After working out the only way our axle will be repaired was to send it to an engineer in Alice Springs we decided to follow it and stay there while waiting for parts to be sent from Adelaide. So unlike Penong we had a fully functioning car to tour around ...

... . Ook heb ik een wandeling gemaakt van 7 kilometer (3,5 heen en 3,5 terug) langs de toen nog uitgedroogde Todd River op richting Alice Springs’ Old Telegraph Station. Zoals de naam al verklapt is dit het oude telegraaf station van Alice Springs. ...