We had decided to cruise through Alice, as we had really explored a few years ago. Mum and Dad gave us the details for some long time friends who live and work in the church up there, Ray and Janelle. We checked out that Tea Shrine (veg restaurant) was still open and BINGO, we had a yummy lunch, and planned to revisit before we leave tomorrow.
After sorting a few bits out we headed over to the mission and were welcomed into their home. We grabbed a quick shower then joined them out for dinner, which was a nice change, although lots of people for us to deal with after a quiet stint on the Tanami.
We then went back to their house, and as it was Ray's birthday they had bought tickets to go and see a show, so we watched a little telly, and when they returned we basically hit the sack.
The next morning we had a lovely chat and were sent off full of grapefruit, a fixed up laptop, a really cool painting by Tommy Crowe, actually Nick and I saw and fell in love with in Kununurra, and lots of love and Hugs. Not to mention some spring water and work boots for Nick.
After a stock up we hit the road, and made it to just before Kulgura, and spent the night at a roadside stop. The heat of the day in full bloom we were ready to get to the cooler weather.
The cannonball memorial, the snail dreams of being able to go that fast
We pushed on again, this time with a very helpful tail wind and made it to the boarder crossing. We spent another night here and I used some water to do a quick wash of some clothes. The flies were incredible, and the ants so we spent most of the day/night inside the van.
We then hit Indulkana community and to my deep regret the art centre closed. Still we drove in and noticed what appeared to be nearly 100 horses/ brumbys milling around the water tank on the outskirts, that's just part of community life, and why I love it/ envy it.
We got into Coober still riding the tailwind and after a fuel up made it on to the Oodanadatta track where we spent the night at Strangeways springs. Still being harassed by flies we decided to do a little walk and came up with some creative methods for keeping the flies at bay.
We climbed to the top of a little rubble range to watch the sunset...
Sahara and deltas loved our chosen camp, as there were many bunny rabbit holes to keep them entertained.
After a decent night sleep we woke to find a licked to death little baby bunny by the drivers side door. We don't think that's cool, and poor sahara was a bit down we weren't very happy with her gift...
This picture was before we found the bunny...
Anyways we shuffled on, after waking up to a magpie, and were glad to keep up with the tail wind all the way to Leigh creek. We pulled up stumps at Parachinilla Gorge for the night, well I was expecting water, It seems we have been spoilt up in the Kimberleys, I must remember that we're in SA again, driest state and all that. so after another harassing fly evening we had a lazy start to the day and moved on to Flinders, Brachnia Gorge.
Where again I was disappointed to find no water hole for a quick swim, but loved the actual park. We drove around and made the snail climb to the top of the ranges and continued our lovely senic drive through to Wilpena Pound.
We stopped for lunch at this lovely lookout
On the road towards Pt Augusta we saw a turn off for these caves and decided to go have a look, little did I know I would climb to the top of the peak behind this picture, totally unprepared wearing thongs.
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