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  • Callaways and a CamperLife In A Camper Trailer
    Day 46

    FREWENA

    June 12, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    FREWENA
    Our next stop was Cammoweel, a town on the border of Queensland and the Northern Territory. There we had lunch. After lunch we crossed the NT border, we had made it to the Northern Territory!
    Once in the Northern Territory we only drove a little bit then stopped at a roadside stop called Frewena. There was a windmill called Southern Cross pumping water out of the ground. The fish curry we made that night didn't taste very good but we ate it anyway. The sunset was pretty amazing there.    Read more

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    Day 47

    DEVILS MARBLES

    June 13, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    DEVILS MARBLES
    The next day, Tuesday we drove to Devils Marbles. We stayed at another roadside stop with a windmill. It was called Bonney Well.
    We parked the camper and drove to Devils Marbles to watch the sunset. When we got to Devils Marbles we did a couple of short walks before the sunset. On the walks we climbed and explored the Marbles. We also took some photos and videos of the Marbles.
    The sunset was amazing over the Marbles. We had tea there. After tea we watched the end of the sunset and drove back to our campsite, the sky was glowing green.
    When we got back to camp we set up and went to bed.    Read more

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    Day 48

    ALICE SPRINGS

    June 14, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    ALICE SPRINGS
    Our next stop was Alice Springs. We stayed at Big4 MacDonnell Ranges Caravan Park. The three nights we stayed we didn't much except stock up. At the park Ben an I had free time, we went on the waterslide and in the pool, jumping pillows and the playground. We also went to see a music show and became the Big4 MacDonnell Ranges Caravan Park Choir.Read more

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    Day 51

    ULURU, KATA TJUTA AND RAINBOW VALLEY

    June 17, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    On Saturday we got up early to go to Rainbow Valley. At Rainbow Valley we had breakfast, went on a walk and made friends with a Singing Honeyeater. The Sining Honeyeater was hanging around us and it even pecked our fingers.
    The walk we did took us to a rock called Mushroom Rock.
    A little bit later we left to go Uluru. The road back out to the main road was very corrugated. Back on the main road it was a 3 hour drive to our campsite at Uluru.
    The night we arrived, Saturday, we went to watch the sunset over Uluru. Uluru changes colour as the sunsets and rises. We had leftovers as an easy, late tea.
    The next morning we got up quite early to see the sunrise over Uluru. At night it was 1° Celsius, so it was pretty cold when we got up, but it was worth it.
    The Cultural Centre inside the National Park was our next stop (the viewing platform, Uluru and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) are all in the Park.) At the Cultural Centre we found out a bit about the walks and some of the Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories and how they interpreted the marks and holes in Uluru.
    The first walk we did was a free guided walk called The Mala Walk. It was a good walk and we found out a lot of information. I got to balance a gathering basket on my head like the women would have carried them.
    After The Mala Walk we did a walk at Mutitjulu Waterhole, an easy walk to a nice little waterhole with lots of side tracks. That night we cooked sausages on the fire.
    Ben and I attempted to slide down the sand dune at our campsite.
    While eating sausages we watch the sunset over Uluru and Kata Tjuta (you can see both of them from the sand dune.)
    After tea Ben and I created our own fires using a stick that we lit by putting it in the original fire and the rest of the wood. When all the fires had burnt down to just coals we cooked some chicken that we were going to have the next night.
    The next morning on Monday we got up quite early again to see the sunrise over Kata Tjuta. When we got to the car park there was a short walk to the viewing platform. When we got to the viewing platform we took a couple of photos then made pancakes for breakfast. They were delicious.
    To fill up the rest of the day did a couple of walks. One of the walks was called Walpa Gorge and the other Valley of the Winds.
    We did the Walpa Gorge walk first and in the windier part of the day, but it turns out Walpa means windy and it was a lot windier then the Valley of the Winds. The walk itself was nice, but the weather not so much.
    The walk was in between two cliff faces on a gently sloping slabs of rock. As you got further into the crack it get more and more lush.
    The Valley of the Winds walk was amazing. We were planning to only go to the first lookout but we ended up going to the second one as well.
    The first part of the walk was dry and with lots of mulga.
    The first lookout looked over a little valley. Then we had a debate whether or not we would go on. Dad, Mum and I wanted to go on and Ben didn't so much but we went any way.
    The walk took us down in between The Olgas, on the way we saw a whole heap of Zebra Finches. After a bit down in the valley we started make our way up to a saddle in between two walls of rock, the view was amazing, looking over more of the Olgas.
    I would have liked to continue but we were unprepared so we had to turn around.
    On the way back to the car we all started getting hungry hotter then we were before (the last bit of the walk is the hottest.) For lunch we had salad wraps and met some people we talked to at the sunrise.
    That evening we went on a camel ride. Our tour was a sunset tour that went for a couple of hours with damper, nibbles and drinks afterwards.
    The best part of the ride was the getting up and down ( the camels are so tall that they have to kneel down for someone to get on, standing up with there back legs first.) We rode for a bit then stopped to have our photos taken with us on the camels with Uluru in the background.
    Again we rode then stopped, this time to watch the sunset (we spent most of the time watching a drone flying over us.)
    We rode back to the farm and had damper, nibbles and drinks. There was a video of all the photos that had been taken.
    The next morning we drove to Kings Canyon.    Read more

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    Day 55

    Kings Canyon

    June 21, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    At Kings Canyon we did the Rim and Creek Walks. We stayed at a place called Morris Pass Look-Out. The look-out was at the top of a rocky slope. We could see Kings Canyon from our camp and the sunsets were amazing (we didn't get up early enough to see the sunrise.)
    On our first night we collected firewood and had fish for tea. Ben and I whiled away the afternoon by exploring the slope. We also discovered a great spot to watch the sunset from.
    The next morning we got up reasonably early to drive out to the canyon.
    When we got up there we decided what walks we were going to. We decided to do the Creek and Rim walks. We did the Creek Walk first.
    On the walk there was lots of different layers of rock and a dried up creek.
    We met one man and he said that when they came a couple of years ago that they were wading though water the whole time.
    The walk was shorter then usual because of a big storm in the wet season when a big boulder fell on the look out.
    We walked back and started the steep climb to the top of the canyon.
    There was about 250 steps going almost vertically up.
    Once at the top of the canyon we took a little detour out to the edge of the canyon for a look, then we continued up some more stairs to another look-out.
    We continued on through a little valley until we came to a small cave. It was about 10:00 so we decided we would have a snack. We kept walking for a couple of hours meandering through the so called "Lost City".
    We came to a look-out turn off that involved scrambling over "buildings" of the Lost City until you came to a sheer drop off looking down into the canyon and Garden of Eden. You also had to cross a cool bridge to get there.
    After about 3 hours we came to the stairs to The Garden of Eden, they were also about the same height and steepness except going down instead of up. When down in the garden we took our packs and shoes off. There was a pool of water in the garden but you weren't allowed to swim because it was very still water that doesn't go anywhere. We had a very "nice" lunch of honey and peanut butter sandwiches. There was one man sitting near us who had forgotten his lunch so we offered him one of our sandwiches and he said it was delicious.
    We finished our lunch and kept walking. The scenery was about the same as before. We came to a gate that was the turn around spot for a different walk so everyone walks the same way. We finished the walk and listened to a ranger talk picking up some good little book about animals in central and arid Australia.
    The next day we packed up and drove to Hermannsburg.    Read more

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    Day 56

    HERMANNSBURG AND PALM VALLEY

    June 22, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    We arrived in Hermannsburg and decided to stay there instead of driving into Palm Valley along a 4WD track.
    We stayed at the museum next to some nice people with a German shepherd. We made tea and drove to Palm Valley.
    The track went through the dry Finke River, over rocky terrain and sand. When we arrived we did a walk though the tropical pocket of the valley. We came up a hill and saw a common wallaroo.
    We did another walk up to a look-out then hurried on home to have tea.
    The next day we drove to 2Mile 4WD camp.    Read more

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    Day 57

    2MILE 4WD CAMP and REDBANK GORGE

    June 23, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    On the way to 2Mile we stopped at a look-out over a crater that the Aborigines believe was formed by a women dancing across the Milky Way and dropping her baby.
    We also stopped at Redbank Gorge, a beautiful gorge but full of stinky dead fish. At Redbank we did a walk into the gorge.
    We kept driving and came to our campsite it was quite a nice campsite on the bank of a dry river. That night we made damper and in the morning we had toast on the fire.    Read more

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    Day 58

    HUGH RIVER and ORMINSTON GORGE and OCHRE

    June 24, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    That day we made multiple stops. Our first one was Orminston Gorge where we did a short walk to a big pool where we had a swim in the freezing cold water. The next stop was the Ochre Pits which was a wall of coloured ochre that aborigines still use today. And last of all our final stop Serpintine Gorge. There was 2 walks there, one of them was to a look-out and the other one to the gorge. We did the one to the look-out first, which had scenic views of the MacDonnell Rangers. Then we did the walk to the gorge. Even though it was the smallest gorge it was probably the nicest.
    That night we camped at Hugh River. We had a "party" because it was the longest we had been out of civilisation at that point.    Read more

  • Callaways and a CamperLife In A Camper Trailer
    Day 59

    SIMPSONS GAP AND ALICE SPRINGS

    June 25, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    The next morning we got up early to go and see the if we could see some rock wallabies at Simpsons Gap. We thought it would be unlikely because people were saying that they were rare, but we were surprised when we got there there were wallabies everywhere.
    We stayed at Alice Springs for another three nights.    Read more

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    Day 61

    THE PEBBLES

    June 27, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    We had just come from Alice Springs where we had "cleaned" our car and camper when we came to the turn off to The Pebbles and realised it was a dirt road. The Pebbles are just like a mini Devils Marbles. We only stayed there one night. The sunsets were pretty impressive there.Read more

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