Today was a bit of a lay day - Jed was up and at 'em early while Milly managed to sleep in till 8:30am. We needed to get a few jobs done today: No.1: collect eggs (4) No.2: buy a UHF bracket No.3: buy new bolts for our driving lights - replacements/back ups for those that shook loose on the Oodnadatta track No.4: Buy gas burner No.5: Get tyres balanced - $60 well spent, we can certainly tell the vibration has died down as a result. No.6: Wash car - just a r...

Sunday Today was a bit of a maintenance and planning day. -Bunnings trip to get parts for our leaking water tank - then took a slight detour on the way back and called in at the old telegraph station. Spent a good hour or so here reading through all the information and history of the place. Information about how the overland telegraph line was built and also learnt a bit about the stolen generation. Because we spent so long at the telegraph station (because w...

- Early to rise - Coffee with mum and dad in town - Dad gave us guided tour of the Alice Springs Community Garden, an impressive endeavour! - home again and back in the pool: earning (debatable) our board as pool cleaners - started plotting our journey Nth - Jed got apptastic: blog, budget, maps - Dad spotted Western Brown snake while buffeling in the Fredo's block, We are watching where we walk! (but haven't gone so far as to wear shoes!) - Milly baked su...

Will update this shortly I'm heading for the fridge for another beer! This weather makes me thirsty - up and packed early - Fuelled up at Marla - Enjoying our story tape: The Martian - Arrived in Alice - toured garden, picked mulberries and collected eggs - swim in pool was beautiful - Milly gets first bite (spider - at home!) - lovely dinner with the Fredo's and Andrew and James - lots of top tips for our adventure.

Thursday- Day 2 Note to self: when bringing old phone with you and leaving it in the car switched on- remember to turn off all old alarms! Hence the early start! My normal 5am alarm went off in the car and woke us both up! Had to exit swag and switch it off. We then got out about 7. Packed up what was left of camp. Then took a quick trip into Arroona dam itself to have a look! It was a massive expanse of water and caught us by surprise when we got to the lookout...