After brekky we hit the Stuart Highway south again for nearly 100 kilometres until we turned west onto the Lasseter Highway heading towards Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas). It was about another 250 kilometres from here to Yulara which is a resort where all the accommodation for the Uluru area is. We made two stops on the way at the Curtin Springs Roadhouse to get some fuel and at the viewing area for Mount Connor where we had some lunch. Mount Conno...

After brekky it was time to explore 'The Alice'. We went to Woolworths first to stock up and then we had a good mooch around. We found Alice to be a lot more pleasant than we thought it would be. We had heard tales of 'The Alice' being dangerous but certainly in the day time it felt safe. It had a good vibe to it. I think it can become a little unsafe though after dark. They have very strict licensing laws in the Northern Territory. There is no drinking allowed i...

We woke up in the morning to discover that the secret people hadn't taken us away in the night but we were just as mad as ever though. Despite there being lots of marbles here we had still lost ours! We got up early this morning so that we could watch the sun rise over the marbles. The sun rise was more spectacular than the sun set. The marbles changed colour and glowed beautifully as the sun light caught them. We could also still see the moon in the sky and this...

After brekky it was time to hit the highway again. It was just short of 200 kilometres to the Stuart Highway where we chucked a left and headed south in the direction of Alice Springs. The land was very flat and the soil was very red. Not too far after getting on the Stuart Highway we drove into Tennant Creek, the first town that we had come to in the Northern Territory. It was a fairly small place and we just passed through except for a quick stop to get some pe...

We had a lovely quiet night and both felt refreshed and ready to motor today. After brekky we hit the highway to the border with the Northern Territory which was about 20 kilometres away. We were met with a big sign at the border which proclaimed ’Welcome to Nature Territory, the Northern Territory of Australia’. We were both very happy to be in the Territory as although we had been to some wonderful places in Queensland it just hadn’t lived up ...