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Experience the Power of Kata Tjuta in the Valley of the Winds Have you ever stood in a landscape, so immense that you felt your chest well up as your eyes feasted on what lay before you, behind you and encompassed you? If not – (or you want to experience it again) – Go to Uluru […]
Road-trip… Did I hear you say Australia Road-trip from Uluru to Cairns? I had three American sisters visiting me in Australia ~ Where should they go and what should they see to get the most out of their four week stay down under? They’d landed in Sydney and spent a few days seeing the main sights of […]
or… The Dry Red Centre to the Tropical Green of Cairns At the end of last year I drove 3,000km (2,000 miles) from Yulara at Uluru in the centre of Australia across the Barkly and Atherton Tablelands to Cairns. (Click the link if you want a full breakdown of what it cost!) A journey from […]
The Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) are located on the Stuart Highway, 400km north of Alice Springs and 100 km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. The first known reference to the name ‘Devils Marbles’ was by John Lewis in 1872 during the construction of the overland Telegraph line – His account reads: “We […]
Photo of the week ~ My recent trip to Australia’s red centre was awesome! Here’s the route we took plotted on my Central Australia pictorial map journal with tales jotted in the bordered boxes around the outside… simply summarizing our trip on a single sheet and… …highlighting our holiday adventures 🙂 Do you jot down a few […]
Palya! Welcome to Anangu land When we entered Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park in the Red Centre of Australia, we were given this awesome guide book of Welcome – Palya – as part of the Park entrance fee ($25 per person). (I believe you now need to collect this from the Cultural Centre – and […]
After heading west out of Alice Springs along the MacDonnell Ranges for 132 km, the fourth highest mountain in the Northern Territory came into view to our north… … Mount Sonder, which stands 1,380 meters above sea level (4,528 feet) Mount Sonder is the end ‘marker’ of the famed Larapinta walking trail that traverses across country 223 kilometres […]
Continuing along the West MacDonnell ranges, after our stops at Standley Chasm and the Ochre Pits we travelled the last 25 km to Ormiston Gorge, which after leaving Namatjira Drive crossed several dry creek beds adorned with stately eucalypts. It had been a long hot day and the sight of the water in Ormiston Gorge was welcoming 🙂 It took no […]
Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) I so nearly trod on this poor little chap! We’d stopped for breakfast on the way to Standley Chasm. I was walking through the leaf litter to get a photo of our motorhome (camperbus!) when as I moved forward there was a rustling movement underfoot! Yikes! What was I about to […]
If the ‘Ochre Pits’ sounds like the ‘pits’ to you, you’re wrong! I have to be honest, when one of our group on this trip to the Red Centre said they particularly wanted to stop off at the Ochre Pits, in the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, my heart didn’t particularly sing 😉 Scanning […]
