Free Day In Alice Springs - July 2nd - Day 7

Oh my Goodness!! We got to sleep in past 5am today! WHOA!! In fact we all slept in until about 10am – and then we all very slowly got ready for the day… For most of the day all we really did was some shopping, bought some souvenirs, and toured around a bit.. We pretty much just wanted a relaxing day….

However we did go to a reptile Centre…. Hey it was cheap and the reptiles were all (well mostly all) in cages… We stayed long enough for the talk – which was actually very educational and made me feel a bit better about the scary snakes and lizards in Australia. We also got to hold a blue tongue lizard and a bearded dragon – that put me out of my comfort zone enough I didn’t need to hold the snake… Lindsey and Lise were brave enough – but quite frankly I’m not putting anything around my neck that squeezes its prey to death – thank you very much.

Don't worry that's just Frank - he's supposed to be there... he walks around freely!

After dinner (which we didn’t cook or have to clean up after!) we went to a didgeridoo show. Which to be honest I didn’t like the didgeridoo when I first got here – but now I love it – I have such a respect for people who can play it and to be honest I would love to get one for myself… maybe one day…The show was amazing! The first song felt like it was raining and I was stuck in the middle of a thunderstorm. The second half of the show – everybody was allowed to play along with the band; we had hand shakers and some people played drums. After the show the three of us bought a CD got it signed by the band and took pictures with the band… After all the excitement headed back to our hostel for the night because oh you guessed it another early start!

Tennent Creek to Alice Springs July 1st - Day 6

(Hold on!! Are you reading from the beginning?? Check out Darwin (Kakadu) June 26th - Day One!!) Warning - this is a long one!! Happy Canada Day! This day was my favourite part of this leg of the adventure! Another early wake-up call hit the road and headed to Devil’s Marbles for sunrise!

After sunrise we had brekky at Devil's Marbles and then found some more wacky picture opportunities. 

 and that’s when my camera broke – WAHHHHH….. L

Next stop of the day was at the telegraph station – which John Stuart created on his way to Darwin to send messages back to Adelaide. The old wires and the station were still set up which was pretty cool to see. There was also a grave site which was explained to us as two workers who worked at the station who ended up being ambushed at the station and killed. It seems that station is pretty popular in the news for murders – as there was a murder committed not too long ago and the station was back in the news – needless to say I was happy to get out of there.

Our next stop was at this little bar along the way where we stopped for lunch. The bartender was absolutely crazy! Had sooo much stuff from Canada – and lucky for us he knew it was Canada day and he knew we were Canadian (damn Canadian sweaters…) He was definitely a Canadian wannabe!! But we did manage to get a pretty cool picture – behind the bar!!

Next stop was at the Alien stop of the world…. Oh and they ran with the Alien theme – let me tell you! Definitely kind of strange…

Our last stop before we made it to Alice Springs was the ‘Tropics of Capricorn’ – which we crossed, pretty cool! Maybe one day I’ll cross the ‘Tropic of Cancer’ in Canada…..

Back on the bus – and headed to Alice Springs – we managed 1500km in 3 days!

We got to our hostel we all showered and got ready to go out for dinner with the crew. We went to Annie’s for $5 meals (always a bonus) and of course some Canada Day celebrations! It was also the Northern Territory day so there were fireworks everywhere – I kind of felt like they were celebrating for us! Just kidding – but it did make me feel like I was celebrating at home – sort of! After Annie’s we went to a bar called Bojangles – which dare I say it may have been better than the Crazy Horse.