Alice to Broome & back. Heat & flies!!

From Alice Springs we decided to head up to Broome in Western Australia via the Tanami Track. The road is 1050 Km to Halls Creek, mostly dirt road, with just a couple of Aboriginal communities on the way.  A welcome spot near Halls Creek is Palm Springs, a great camp site amid the dust of the deserts.

Broome had been hit with three cyclones earlier in the year and combined with the unseasonably hot weather the heat, humidity & mosquitoes were unreal. We decided the only way to survive was to head back to Alice to cool temperatures! 

Heading back to Queensland via the Plenty & Donahue Highways tomorrow - more dirt roads :)

The start of the Tanami Road - 1050 Km to go!

West McDonnel Range

Tanami Road

Sunset & Earthshine at Wolf Creek Crater

View from the top of Wolf Creek Crater - the horizons go on forever

Kite

Kite

Palm Springs, an Oasis near Halls Creek

Male Crimson Finch

Female Crimson Finch

Photographing Dragonflies

Pretty Girl at The Boab Tree

The Boab Tree

Follow my leader

Sunset at Quandong

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Sea Eagle

Camping on the beach at Quandong

Nature's Chalice

Brolgas

Cable Beach, Broome WA

Back on the Tanami

Road Trains & Dust!!

Wedge Tail Eagle

Wedge Tails & Roadkill

Heading North from Adelaide.

Well Sue & I are finally back on the road again, currently in the centre of Oz at Alice Springs. We are aiming to travel from Adelaide in South Australia across the deserts to Broome and the Kimberley in Western Australia, traversing the Savannah Way in the Northern Territory & Queensland to Cairns and finally head South back home - maybe arriving around mid July.

 Sunset in Lower Light SA

Moonrise over Lower Light SA

Black Kite

Whistling Kite

Kestrels

Our Gordigear 'Tiaga' Camper Trailer

'Wedgie' Wedge Tailed Eagle

LBB

The World's End National Park SA

Sunrise at The World's End 

Sunrise at The World's End

Arkaroola next stop!

The Old Hotel ruins on the way to Arkaroola

On the verandah of the Hotel

Sunset

Abandoned Goldfields

Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby

Arakaroola - the road less travelled

Arkaroola

Arkaroola

Arkaroola

Wedgie at dusk

On the edge of Lake Eyre

 Lake Eyre

Cycling on the Oodnadatta track - only 160Km's to the next town & millions of flies!!

How we avoid the flies - thanks Gordigear :)

Wedge tail takeoff

Clouds over the Stuart Highway

MacDonnell Ranges Gorge

Says it all really!

Black Footed Rock Wallaby

Budgie

Red Tailed Black Cockatoo

Lonesome tree