Alice Springs Telegraph Station

On another bright but chilly morning followed by warmth in the afternoon, I walked a few kilometres beside the dry Todd River, encountering flocks of galahs, to the Telegraph Station, one of the first stops on the transcontinental telegraph between Adelaide and Darwin and the first permanent building in Central Australia, and up Trig Hill which was the first trig point in the mapping of the region. There was water in the original Alice Spring.
I walked back into town and crossed the Todd Bridge to the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.Leia mais