Left the van at Finke River (a dry river bed with pink sand, the kids played in there until sunset last night). We doubled back a little to Ernest Giles Road and about 10kms along are the Henbury Meteorite Craters, a group of craters formed over 4,700 years ago by a meteorite crashing to earth at about 40,000kms an hour. Pretty interesting landscape.
Back onto the Stuart Hwy (Ella now knows lots about John McDouall Stuart’s explorations...kids stuck on a roadtrip are such a captive audience!) we continued on to Stuart’s Well Roadhouse and stopped to check out a camel farm.
Arrived in Alice Springs and pulled up at the Big 4 caravan park there. This is one of those places to have a little break from your trip. When I say “break” we spent the day doing major washing (clothes and us!), cleaning out fridges, stocking up on supplies etc. Won’t mention all the boring stuff, but the kids were happy to hang out in the playground/jumping pillow etc and the adults were happy with internet access and mobile coverage again, yay!
We were ALL pretty happy with the dessert van in the park! chocolate mousse and pancakes with fresh strawberry syrup, strawberries, cream & ice-cream went down a treat!
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