alice springs

Today was a rest day and we slept in, or at least we tried to. Whoever had been in the room before us had very kindly set the alarm for 5.30am. Nice.

After this start, we decided to take it easy and have a stroll around alice and look at the sights on foot. I have to say it was nice to use our legs for a change.

Our first port of call was anzac hill which affords a very good view of the town of alice, and from there we just wandered around and took it very easy.

After lunch i did some blog work and then we went for a ride out to the old telegraph station. An impressive old building, which brought home just how tough it would have been to man these stations that are spread evenly right through the middle of the country.

the old telegraph station, alice springs

old wagon, alicesprings telegraph station

From there it was back to anzac hill to watch the sun set which was spectacular and greatly appreciated by the many people that had gathered to watch it. We also met another motorcycle tourer and chatted for a while, swapping stories of places we had ridden and good places to camp.

anzac memorial

Christine, we rode out to see erwin but the whole place was shut up so we have no idea what is going on there.

Tomorrow we are off to standley chasm and then to ellery creek bighole for the night, and if that dosen't suit then we will push on ormiston gorge. From there we will go to uluru and kata tjuta and mt conner.