A message from Ella....

Today we woke up early and drove for around half an hour (too long) to Standley Chasm!
We did a short-ish walk but it was sort of fun because you got to climb over all these massive rocks that are blocking the path!

After the walk that felt like hours we actually got to the Chasm but there was no one there! We had it all to ourselves for a bit but then all the tourists and grey nomads started coming in!

At one point me and charlie were sitting in the way of a ladies photo and she yelled out "get out of the way some of us are trying to take camera shots!" bit weeeeiiiird!! :)

We were walkin back and Samuel and Dad saw a sign pointing up a really steep hill  that said 'Larapinta walk' so they decided to walk up it to the top and then come down again! while they were doing that Mum, Charlie and I walked back to the kiosk and had an ice cream while we were waiting. Not long after we started eating Dad and Samuel came back and Samuel said "when you got to the top the sight is breath-taking but it kills your thighs when you get to the tenth step!!"

We got back in the car to drive a whole entire hour to get to the Palm Valley in the
Finke River National Park!

The road was soooooooooo bumpy and rocky and we got tossed up and down and all around!
We finally got to the Palm Valley car park (a massive flat rock) sat down and had some snacks before we went off on a bit of a walk through the palm trees!

We found out that the type of palm tree there is called a Red Cabbage Palm and it is the only place you can find this species in the world!!! so rare :)

On the drive back in the car everything was quiet but then we heard Samuel yell out "everyone look a dingo!" we all looked just in time to see it walk into the bushes. We drove around the corner and saw it again so we took photos and we were off trying to beat nightfall back to the caravan park!

BEST PART OF THE DAY: Macca's for tea, sssshhhhhh! ;)