Alice Springs to West MacDonnell National Park (24.07.2012): Today we headed to Alice Springs' main attraction: Desert Park. The park is a biopark containing 2km of gentle paths winding through desert habitats containing plants and animals that call this place home. There is also a nocturnal house containing the desert creatures of the night. The aviaries and mammal enclosures are all extremely big and all walk through. We saw some amazing wildlife including a f...

Alice Springs (23.07.2012): The road from Devil's Marbles to Alice Springs is approximately 400km. We made a stop at Wycliffe Well first of all which has a reputation as being a hot spot for UFO sightings. It was a rather strange place. After a stop at Ti Tree to swap over driving we continued down the Stuart Highway. It is crazy that we have barely left this road. The scenery is getting monotonous now. It really is such a long straight road, most of the time...

Tennant Creek (22.07.2012): We left the lovely Daly Waters Pub at 8am heading 400km to Tennant Creek with a stop at Renner Springs for fuel. We arrived at Tennant Creek around 1pm. The town is very strange, it felt like we were back in the 1960s. We parked up to get some lunch before heading for the Battery Hill Mine and partaking in a tour of an old goldmine. Sporting hard hats and ear mufflers, we were able to use some of the old machinery. The tour was pretty...

Mataranka (21.07.2012): The first leg of our journey today took us 100km to Mataranka stopping off first of all at the Cutta Cutta Caves 29km outside of Katherine. Our next stop upon reaching Mataranka was Territory Manor, where checked out one of the daily barramundi feeding sessions (Adam got to see his favourite Aussie dish - a barra burger - alive). We then drove on to Bitter Springs which is located in Elsey National Park. The springs are a constant 34 degr...

Katherine Gorge (20.07.2012): Today we travelled 100km from Gungurul in Kakadu to Pine Creek stopping for only half an hour for a little peek at the old mine shafts and for a refuel. Pine Creek seems to be a town lost in time, it was really quirky. With a full tank of petrol we headed for Katherine 90km along the Stuart Highway from Pine Creek. We stopped in the town to grab a few things we needed and to find an internet café. We finally got phone signals - sor...