Saturday, 16 July 2011

Gorges into Alice


Setting off that morning, we were all delighted with the blue skies. Driving through Tylers Pass was very pretty, some low lying mist in places around the Macdonnell Ranges made for some unusuual photos. This day we visited Redbank Gorge, Glen Helen, Ormiston, Ochre Pit and Ellery Pit Big Hole. These are all gorges in the Macdonnell ranges. Each one quite unique in its own way. A lot of stinky dead fish in the water holes, which was a natural seasonal occurance due to elevated water temperatures. We looked down on a dingo routing around in the shallows at Ormiston. , whilst eagles soared overhead. A perfect day, but feltgorged out at the end. Headed on into Alice, Malcolm continually expecting the fuel red light to pop on at any time, as we had been on empty for the last 100 km. It did come on for the first time ever 20 km outside Alice, so we cruised in and took advantage of the first petrol station we came on and quite happy to pay $1.67 a litre. After topping up there was probably 12 litres left in the tank which is about another 100 km. Now we have a bench mark. We caught up with Richard and Helen, who had deserted us after Curtain Springs. They have been in this neck of the woods before and had gone looking for some respite from the rain. They had camped at the Big 4 and reserved the sites next to them for us. After much longed for showers we drove into the RSL club for a very nice buffet dinner, (to gorge out yet again).

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