Off to Alice Springs

Day 16

Heading to Alice today after an enjoyable stay at Gem Tree. Should only be a couple of hours on the road. Bill is heading off early to get there for a dental appointment. We will take it easily and arrive later. Drove to Alice and checked out a monument on the way. We had a great look at the wild flowers along the Hwy as well. Headed off about 9:30am. Got to the Stuart hwy the traffic increased 100 fold with caravans everywhere. Things are getting busy on our way into town. We headed to get fuel first up but they were Hi Flow bowsers and this would have caused me major dramas. So left the refuelling and we headed to Kmart. Here we pick up a few items we needed before catching up with Bill, after he had been to see the dentist. Then we went to a cafe in the centre of town for lunch. Not the best but food. Then it was off to see if we could get shockies for the camper. This turns out to be a bit of a saga and I will get onto that tomorrow. Then I dropped off Rell at Woolies while checking out a few other locations for shockies. Before that we went to Super Cheap for a couple of items as well. So when I got back to Woolies I noticed a policeman at the BWS store checking license. I noticed he turned a couple of Aboriginal guys away. Apparently they had bought alcohol yesterday so not today. They were pissed off. So when we went in they asked for owe licenses and asked where we were taking the alcohol. Just told him we were taking them back to caravan park and that was okay. It was all good. But it was pay day so there were a lot of people around town. Anyway before all this we dropped off the camper at the caravan park. We got a site with an ensuite this time so this was good. Another day tomorrow.Read more