Day 10

Kings Canyon



Ormiston Gorge




Ellery Creek Big Hole

 Another 3 days on the road and we ae in Alice Springs.  Have seen some beautiful scenery along the way.  Drove to Kings Canyon Resort -not my kind of resort but fine for us and had a great playground for the kids.  Stopped on the way to walk to kathleen Springs - nice and peaceful...well it was until our children got there.  :))  Went looking for animals that night with the torch-found some mice and was so focused on those we didn't hear the dingo come up behind us!!  Very scary - josh says they have evil eyes!  Next day went to Kings Canyon to do the rim walk.  very impressed with the kids.  It was a 6km walk and a very steep ascent to start off the walk and they did it really well without complaining....well almost.    Back in the car and we drove to Glen Helen Resort (what's with that??).  It was freezing but I couldn't put the heater on in the van cos when I put it on it shorted out everything else!!  On the road again today, first stop Ormiston Gorge - beautiful to look at but horrible stench - dead fish everywhere!  Apparently it's too cold for them too!!  We stopped at the Ochre Pits which was really interesting.  Then a stop at Ellery Creek Big Hole - again would have been lovely except for the dead fish!  We were out of bread so took a 20 minute detour in to Standley Chasm so we could go to their kiosk for lunch - but when we got there they had no food!!??!!  Cupasoups for lunch in the van and then off to Alice Springs.  Lots to do here, and we haven't even got out of the caravan park yet!  Wine and cheese night tonight so we went and watched the sunset and had wine and cheese with some other campers.  They have jumping pillows which the kids loved - haven't tried out the go karts yet! The kids are having a ball but completely exhausted - don't think their heads even hit the pillow before they fell asleep tonight.  Off to bed for me too, going to try and tackle the red dust in the caravan tomorrow!  Uugghhh!!