We had to be at the airport fairly early this morning for our flight to Alice Springs – a mere 3 hour flight.
We landed in the Northern Territory which is a peculiar 9.5 hours ahead of GMT – oh, and very hot. Mid 30s with a very dry heat, lots of sun and (as a slight relief) a fair wind.
We’ve hired a car for the next few days (some serious driving coming up!), which took us into our room at the ‘resort’.
We had lunch in town and an explore of the town, which is… not terribly inspiring, but good to say we’ve been to. Quite interesting getting to cross a bone-dry river bed.
Chilled back at base after that and had dinner there too.

Neil

Alice Springs, I thought it would be really desolate, a desert, but its not too bad

Rob

Very pleasant day today. Took a boat cruise up the Brisbane river to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, met a former work colleague of Rob’s and her kids there and spent time meeting the animals and birds.
On the way back we stopped at Mt Coot-tha, a mountain giving a great view over most of the Brisbane metropolitan area (and had ice cream!).
This evening we took a gentle still along the riverside boardwalk.
Up early tomorrow to fly to Alice Springs.