Day 8

Saturday, 22nd September
Wauchope - Alice Springs

Wauchope
Wycliff Well
Ti Tree
Aileron
Alice Springs

Distance Traveled

Today - 845 km

Total - 3657 km

Blog

I had to get the right pronuniation of Warchoupe. It is war-cup, but the publican and probably the owner of the town didn't actually care what anyone called it.

It was a 4ish hour drIve to Alice. We firstly stopped at Wycliff Well. This is another fuel stop and not much else, that is famous for alien sightings. Most of the sightings are associated with the Devils Marbles.

There are newspaper clippings all around the walls of sightings there and at the Devils Marbles.

The next stop was at Aileron where they had a huge statue of an aboriginie on the top of the hill up the back of the town. We stopped there for lunch.

We got to Alice and decided to stay at a park called "G'day Mate". We set up camp and then I took the kids for a swim.

That night we went to an aboriginal dance night for dinner.During the performance I got up and played digereedoo and Bridget did the Cassawary dance. It was a fun night.

With driving and the load, I have found if I go at 107 km/h I get 2400 rpm, but at 110km/h it jumps up to 3200, as it drops down a gear. Gotta be careful or you can use too much fuel and not get to the next town.

Tonight is Alice's big concert festival (equivilant to the "big day out festival"). It is very late and I can still hear partying, but that may not even be related.

Warchoupe - the whole lot of it.

Vehicles that never made it out of Warchoupe

Wycliff Well. Australians Alien Capital. Another roadhouse.

Pick the aliens

Back on the road. Red landscape

Ti Tree

Aileron. We stopped here for a while.

Passing through the Tropic of Capricorn (second time in a week, last time was heading north)

Check out the size of the burs out here. These were stuck all through our shoes after doing a cache.

A few hills as we approach Alice Springs

Distant Mountains of Alice Springs

Hills approaching Alice Springs

Interesting Tops of these hills. They are actually huge.

The McDonald Ranges

Alice Springs

Lovely rolling hills

Approaching Alice

The rocky hillside of the Gap

The Gap at South Alice Springs

A roo and her joey that we saw that night.

Digeridoo Player. I had a go later, but I wasn't very good. I'm sure I could play one of those years ago.

A bunch of great performers. They showed us the dances, digeridoo and a lot of dreamtime and history.