Our circular trip through the East McDonnell Ranges brought us back to Alice Springs for a mad 36 hour visit to Alice Springs.
We visited the reptile house in town and the Royal Flying Doctor Service museum on day one. On our second day we spend the morning in the "Desert Park" a well run wilderness park combining aboriginal culture and outback wildlife. The bird show was excellent. The park mostly consists of ecosystem-specific aviaries in a bushland setting. The bird talk at the waterhole was excellent.
As the temperature was 38 degrees we escaped to the movies for the 2pm showing of "The Boxtrolls" a new movie. After catching up with a friend from Brisbane who we hadn't seen for years we fed rock wallabies at Alice's gap in the McDonnell ranges. Then we shopped for our trip across the rest of the "Outback Way" back to Queensland.
Cool lizards in the reptile house.
Laura and Max flying a RFDS aircraft.
Tony loved the cool pedal radios that the RFDS introduced throughout the pastoral stations for communications.
The bird show at Desert Park. Hawks, owls, curlews (plenty of these on the UQ campus where Tony works) and a goshawk,
Laura and Max chillin' at the movies.
Feeding the rock wallabies in Alice Springs.
All downhill. S&HOX
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