Week 19

Devils Marbles to Uluru

From Devils Marbles we continued south to Wycliffe wells and visited the roadhouse with the strange UFO things… We felt we were going the wrong way with so many travellers heading north. Our hands were getting a workout waving back to each passing by.

 

Alice Springs. 7th – 11th May

 

 

We stayed at the Stuart Caravan park for 5 nights. The car was serviced whilst here and we booked in for the van to be serviced later in Darwin.

Jake Curtis and I thought we would go for a swim in the pool.... it was a little chilly. The temperature has dropped a bit. Making do without the air con that we have got a custom to.

We had a look at the Royal Doctors Museum, the kids got to explore a full sized plane that they use.
We went to a local, very small craft market.  Drove over the Todd River, which is a dry river no water.

Caught up on some much needed organising and cleaning in the van it never ends, time for another market to sell of some clothes that the kids have out grown and toys that they are now board of... Time to put Amity to work!!!lol.

 

 

NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH!

This months Caravan and Motorhome On Tour mag is out.... and we are in the HAPPY HOUR on the front cover and the DVD... and our lovely friends Bruce and Judy got an interview... 5 mins of fame...lol ( hope they get to read this )

On Saturday night we went to the Speedway. Quite small, but for $40 a family, we thought it was good value entertainment for the kids. A Storm hit at the end of the evening. Blowing dust everywhere but we stayed and watched the demolition derby in the rain.

Well that was the end of the hot weather… for the following days it was 20 or less and below 8 at night.

Uluru 12th- & 13th May

A 460km Sunday drive saw us arriving mid afternoon at the Ayres rock resort. I wanted Mother’s Day to be a bit special. I thought watching the sunset on Uluru whilst having a few drinks would be a nice way to celebrate.

As it was over $50 a night to stay, we only camped for 2 nights. The second day saw us visiting Kata Juta in the morning. The flies were very annoying.

Jake fell over and cut his hand so that was the end of our attempt of one of the walks.

 We settled for a few photos and then went back to the resort.

Dad tried to play the Didgeridoo. It was very funny. It sounded like he was passing wind.

Mum and Amity gave dancing a go they had to be Emu’s. Zach was too shy to give it a go.

In the afternoon we drove back to Uluru. We didn’t climb it but we watched other people climbing down.

That night it was very cold, it was only 8 degrees at 7:30am when we put the heater on. First time in months! We packed up and head back towards Alice Springs with intentions to free camp somewhere on the way back.

Oh yeah… if visiting, don’t forget to bring a fly net for your head!  The flies are really that bad…