This is a quick detour via Pimba when driving from Coober Pedy towards Adelaide. A military town that clearly used to have a bigger population. These amazing displays were by the roadside for anyone to look at.
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Ayer’s Rock / Uluru after some rain
It is a rare and special thing when it rains at Uluru. We were very lucky to catch the magnificent rock after some rains. The waterhole was flooded and it was a cacophony of frog calls at Uluru. We did the 11km base walk after some rains so a lot of the track had turned into muddy lakes. The base walk allowed us to see the many personalities of the rock but did feel very long and would have been very exposed had it not been overcast that day.
Waterhole full at Uluru – Note the plants that have gone underwater!
The wet base walk track around Uluru.
Rare picture of Uluru with a rain cloud on top!
Kings Canyon Rim Walk – SPECTACULAR!
Despite being a long 5.5 hours drive from Alice Springs by 2WD, the Kings Canyon Rim Walk is one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful hikes ever. As a result, there are lots of photos! It was stunning in every direction! Lucky that the day we did the walk was overcast and slightly drizzly. It would otherwise be exposed and hot! Bring a fly net for your head! The number of flies would drive anyone to insanity!
West MacDonnell Ranges
A great day trip from Alice Springs with lots of interesting sites to see. These are accessible by 2WD and not too far a walk.
Simpson’s Gap
Simpson’s Gap
Ormiston Gorge – refreshingly cool to swim in!
Ellery Creek Big Hole – lush and green due to recent rains
Ochre Pits
Standley Chasm
Coober Pedy – a dusty, desolate but fascinating place
Coober Pedy in South Australia has a treeless, desolate landscape marked with piles of dirt where opals have been mined. People live in dwellings carved out of the sandstone to escape from the heat and exposed landscape. Worth a visit! Interesting tour at Umoona museum to learn how opals are mined and the atmospheric Serbian Orthodox Church dug out of rock.
Flat, desolate, hot Coober Pedy
Little piles of dirt resulting from the opal mines
Umoona museum shop
Small amount of opal left in the rock
Umoona Museum
Umoona museum shop
Umoona Museum
Umoona Museum
Umoona Musuem – example of hand dug room
Umoona Museum
Serbian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church, Coober Pedy
The Amazing Devil’s Marbles
There’s not much more to say about the Devil’s Marbles except, check out these pics! What an amazing sight!
Daly Water Pub – A Hoarder’s Paradise
On a journey down the center of the vast continent that is Australia, a visit to the Daly Waters Pub is a must-do. Somehow in the middle of nowhere, they have accumulated a whole bunch of eclectic collections. Bras, hats, shirts, motorcycles, traffic lights, helicopters just to name a few…
We camped in their campsite. Toilet amenities are OK. Camping in wet conditions tends to make everything muddy and wet. The food at the pub was great and the staff friendly. Plus there is a free roaming horse called Polly!
Litchfield National Park in the Wet Season
Visiting Litchfield National Park in the wet season is an unrelentingly humid affair. Luckily, the temperature was slightly less due to the monsoon but this was offset by the frequent rain which turned many of the walking tracks into muddy affairs. Nevertheless, it was a privilege to have Litchfield basically to ourselves and to see the waterfalls at their powerful best, swollen with wet season rains.
The reward from hiking the Greenant Creek Walk
Litchfield National Park
Upper Cascades – Litchfield National Park
Upper Cascades – Litchfield National Park
Upper Cascades – Litchfield National Park
Wangi Falls
Tolmer Falls