Day 0 – 9^th June 2012

A sad day. Ethan’s pet Guinea Pig, Diesel, died overnight. On the bright side at least he died while we were still at home and not in the care of our neighbour who was going to look after it.

Day  1 – 10^th June 2012

After a lazy and relaxed morning packing we travelled to 2.5hrs north of Adelaide to Telowie Gorge (just out of Port Germain) where we camped in the National Park at 1 of only 2 camp sites. The creek was flowing well and as we had arrived so early in the afternoon we went for a walk up the gorge. On the way back we saw a Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby close to the path (Marlise saw 2).

It was a cold evening and we were tucked up in our swags after dinner by the time it was dark

Day  2 – 11^th June 2012

The wind picked up overnight so the morning wasn’t that cold. We had a quick stop in Port Germain to see Australia’s longest wooden jetty before heading off to Port Augusta to pick up the usual last minute forgotten items before heading off to Coober Pedy. We stayed at the Desert View Underground Apartments for the full underground experience (Ethan was in heaven being able to watch TV!!!!).

Day  3 – 12^th June 2012

It was fantastic being able to wake up all warm as the underground apartment was a constant temperature of about 20 deg C. We had a straight forward drive to Alice Springs with only one stop at Erldunda for lunch (the roadhouse had run out of diesel and to see the panic amongst the grey nomads towing caravans was quite interesting). We arrived in Alice about 1430, set up camp, and Isaac, Ethan & Annie had a QUICK swim in the pool (25 deg C is considered hot to them) before heading off to the mall to see how it had changed. The mall was so quiet it was eerie.

We've now had dinner and we're about to head off on a star gazing session.

Next post may be some time off as we'll be out of range for some time. I'll also work out how to post photos soon!!!!!!!

Alex