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Hello again! Darren and Kerry here; thought we would e-mail you from the very middle of Australia, yep that's right Alice Springs!Â
After we last updated you all we spent the last day having a look around Darwin, especially a pretty cool museum/art gallery that featured lots of Aboriginal art and information about Cyclone Tracy, which pretty much annihilated Darwin a few decades back. We find it quite strange in a way how we have only just come to explore Australia's real beginnings (Aboriginal history) at the end of our time here in Oz but hey we like to do things differently! The museum also featured a dark room where you got to hear sound recordings of the cyclone as it hit Darwin and it's pretty terrifying to listen to let alone what it must have been like to go through it.
The day after we left Darwin we travelled out to Kakudu National Park, where we spent 2 days doing bush walking and seeing some true Aboriginal rock art. One of the walks we went on ended on a high plateau over looking a vast area, which was pretty stunning. All the creeks and rivers that we drove over had huge warning signs about not to swim in them due to the Salt Water crocodiles living there. We stopped to have a look and even did one walk along a river that was suppoed to be inhabited by them but unfortunately we didn't spot any. Kakudu is stunning and we would recommend anyone visiting Oz to take a look around the park but we would definitely say to take a 4X4 as some of the roads leading off the main road are pretty shoddy!
Since leaving Kakudu we have spent the last few days doing nothing but driving South through the Outback, which has been fairly uneventful as the road is SO straight that Romans could have built it but we have spotted a few Dingos as we've been driving along. Tomorrow we are going to be driving out to Uluru (Ayres Rock), Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon, some hopefully we'll have some great pictures and stories to update you all with! Until then, stay safe and we will update you all again soon!!
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