Alice Springs is part of the Australian Government's Solar Cities initiative, helping to change the way ccities think about and use energy. We were informed that the system is not running at full potential as the wrong size inverters were installed.

This is where the Todd River races are run, we arrived too late in Alice to see them. Locals kept telling us that it never rains in Alice Springs. About a month after we left, the same people sent us a photo of the river in flood.

The Alice Springs Telegraph Station was one of 11 staffed repeater stations on the Overland Telegraph Line (OTL). This line consisted of a single strand of iron wire on 36000 timber poles, stretching 3000km across Australia, from Adelaide to Port Darwin. From Port Darwin a submarine cable beneath the sea to Singapore connected Australia to the rest of the world. News from Britain which prior to 1872 had taken 3 months to reach Australia by sea, now arrived withi...

Simpsons Gap in the West Macdonnell National Park.

These camel statues are located near Alice Springs railway station.