Road trip to the centre of Australia

DucksNuts • Aug 24, 2008 5:42 am
Next Saturday, we are off on a red dirt adventure.....2285kms (1420 miles), thats a lot of time in a car with 2 little boys, but the dvd players will help.

YAY...2 weeks away

Cant wait to do Uluru (Ayers Rock) and stay in Coober Pedy.

Do you want pics?
Chocolatl • Aug 24, 2008 8:22 am
Take plenty of pictures! I want to live vicariously through you, since I doubt this is a trip I will ever get to make (for all that Australia is on my "Countries to visit before I die" list.)
Clodfobble • Aug 24, 2008 10:39 am
Do you want pics?


Come on now, is that a serious question?
DucksNuts • Aug 24, 2008 8:50 pm
weeeellll.....just checking
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 24, 2008 9:15 pm
Bullshit, you were just teasing us... again. :p
DucksNuts • Sep 10, 2008 6:53 am
Got home last nite.

Such a great trip, the scenery changed sooo much from hour to hour. Crops, mulga, desert, rocks....just amazing.

Im really glad to be home, but it was heaps of fun.

Just need to organise my pics.
Sundae • Sep 10, 2008 7:00 am
I can't wait to see them - I'd love to do that trip.

I love that Cellar parents take their kids on road-trips. Growing up in the 70s it wasn't really done much. Even friends with money only stayed in hotels as opposed to tents in the same seaside places. We were lucky in that we got to spend a lot of time in London because our family was there.
barefoot serpent • Sep 10, 2008 12:17 pm
[hums] A Town Called Malice
Flint • Sep 10, 2008 4:44 pm
"Load drip to the centre of Arse, areola"
Cloud • Sep 10, 2008 5:14 pm
in a big pink bus?

ETA: Okay, I guess the bus wasn't actually pink . . . but it should have been.
footfootfoot • Sep 10, 2008 9:43 pm
If you dig through the earth from the center of Australia you'll end up only a very short distance from our house. We'd drive over to pick you up and you could visit for a while. We've got maple syrup.
TheMercenary • Sep 11, 2008 7:49 pm
Very interesting. I can't wait to see the pics. Put them on one of those online host sites like Flickr or Picasa so we can see them all.
DucksNuts • Sep 12, 2008 6:02 am
Picasa

Still editing and sorting, but at least you can have a squizz :)
Sundae • Sep 12, 2008 6:38 am
Beautiful photos.
I was just thinking, "That's exactly how I picture Australia" and then remembered that's because I have rellies there and have seen their photos :)

Would love to see more as you sort them.
Chocolatl • Sep 12, 2008 8:36 am
Some of the areas remind me a lot of places out in Arizona, but others seem like landscapes from another world. Thank you very much for sharing these.
Also -- what is the deal with the wild camels? I didn't think camels were native to Australia. Were they brought over to work as pack animals on the desert terrain?
Sundae • Sep 12, 2008 8:52 am
The camels are imports. Ones that seem to have worked quite well (as opposed to cane toads and rabbits for example!)
glatt • Sep 12, 2008 8:56 am
Ormiston Gorge is gorgeous.


No, seriously, it's like an oasis. And lots of cool rocks for the kid to climb on.
Clodfobble • Sep 12, 2008 12:58 pm
You got some rock-climbers in the making there, Ducks. Very cute kids!