Thursday, September 4, 2008

Old Update #13-North of Alice- Devils Marbles.

Heading North from Alice Springs we came across this little Cairn...


















and Guess Who was here 31 years earlier?

Check the HOT CHICK in the Commer Van ! ! ! Rdrdrdrdrdrdrdrddrdrdrdrdrd.
Hi Mum ! Still got those Sunnies??? They'd probably look OK now too ! ! !

DEVIL'S MARBLES
Then onto the Devils Marbles where we camped for the night.


Incredible - out in the middle of no-where. Boulders everywhere piles up ontop of each other.
Here's Dad and I in 1977

and this year ???
Come on Emma -you get up here too...
This was a lot of fun - revisiting and re-creating.
Just 1 finger.


Dinner Time.

CAMPING AREA - Check how BUSY it was - yuck !

That's us on the bottom of the photo - 2nd from the right.

Yes, yes... I know.... The SMALL one ! !
Sunrise.
Still Sunrise....
Leaving the Devils Marbles.

This is only a TINY part of many, many piles of these things.

All of a sudden the scenery changed - and there were TREES and what's that other stuff ??.... Oh yeah .. Grass. This change in scenery all happened in the space of a couple of 100 kms.

Boy there's a lot of straight road out here ! !






2 comments:

Carl said...

love the blue camper from 77 picture - yeah how cool is that I want one.

longies said...

RE:love the blue camper from 77 picture - yeah how cool is that I want one.
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Yeah Carl - A pretty cool Commer Van. Not too sure the year.
Dad may fill us in with that info.

We used it for a 7 week trip up the centre of Aus in mid-1977.
(Mostly dirt roads back then from Port Augusta to Alice (incl Dirt out to Ayers Rock). Alan Wall and family were in Katherine at the time (post Cyclone Tracey)
Dad actually did most of the 'fitting out' himself.
From memory, it wasn't the most reliable thing - but it got us there.