Kimberley trip 2015 - Ponto Falls to home

We crossed into NSW and watched the landscape get greener and more colourful. We stopped fort lunch at Nyngen under the helicopter and then pushed on to our destination.

We made it to Ponto Falls! And what a gorgeous spot it was. We were right on the banks of the river listening to the cockatoo screeches to signal the end of the day and then again in the morning for our wake up call.

We made spaghetti Bolognese for our last night camping and drank red wine and port next to the campfire where we burnt all of the wood we had been carrying.

It was beautiful to wake up to the Sinn breaking through the morning mist and being able to slowly get up and have a leisurely pack up after a nice cooked breakfast.

On the home stretch now. Should be home by mid afternoon.

Perfect way to end a fabulous trip.

Kimberley trip 2015 - the world's oldest operating outdoor movie theatre

We had a real chill out day after the second day being washing and grocery shopping. We had bacon eggs and mushrooms for breakfast. The boys had morning showers and we all went into the Broome Saturday markets. We then went to a free range butcher who vacuum packs meat to pick up supplies for the trip into the Gibb.

Got back to uncle Frew waiting to take Sam for a swim in the pool. It was freezing! Colder than the beach! We then just chilled out and made our way back into town to go and see inside out pin the oldest operating outdoor theatre in the world. We had been told we could take our own dinner so we were originally going to get fish and chips, but when we went to the fish and chip shop it was ridiculously expensive! $10.50 for 1 piece of fish!  So we got pizza instead.

It was a great experience watching they big screen on sun chairs with a big patch of lawn in front to lay down on if wanted, the chairs were uncomfortable after a while, I would recommend taking pillows and a blanket.

Today we are going to go to the light house and check out the dinosaur footprints. Prob won't be able to see the actual foot prints as you have to be there at low tide and low tide was early in the morning before sunrise and in the evening after sunset.

Kimberley trip 2015 - Alice Springs

We traveled from kings canyon back along the Ernest Giles road and stopped at the Henbury meteorite craters. They were a nice break from sitting in the car and gave us a chance to stretch out the legs doing the 20 min walk around the rim of the crater.

We had lunch, cheesy toast and tomato soup trying to wave the flies away. Then we drove on into Alice springs.

Alice is quite pretty to drive into. I wasn't expecting the town to look like this.  There are a lot of aboriginal people living here and they just seem to plonk themselves down wherever they are and just sit around sometimes on their own and other times in  a group.

We rang the big4 caravan park as it had great reviews but they wanted to charge us $50 a night for an un powered site. I then rang the heritage campground right next door and got $15 per adult per night and were not charging for children. There was heaps of space to park up. The guy on the phone was much more pleasant and when we rocked up he was even nicer in person. The heritage is awesome for pet owner's. They have a big fenced off greased off leash area just for dogs. We have seen heaps of happy dogs whilst staying here for the last two nights.

We used the two nights to get laundry done, have assume hot showers, fix up some of the lighting and car issues Gaz has wanted to do and to go grocery shopping to top up milk bread and snacks.

Sam saw an airplane coming in for landing as we drove into Alice and we decided to go to the royal flying doctor service museum. Sam loved it. We watched a hologram movie about the RFDS and then got to go through an actual plane on display.

The caravan park had a pool and as soon as Sam saw it he wanted to go in it. Gaz finally said ok I'll take you. Sam got in it sucked the breath out out him, he dog packed around ina circle and got straight out! I missed seeing his expression but it cracked me up hearing about it.

We also bumped into the family from cobar we had camped with at kings canyon, so Sam got to play with the kids again.

We were allowed camp fires in the caravan park in the section where we camped so it's last night we got the fire going and had char grilled chicken pieces steamed veggies and rice.

I like Alice springs. Id like to come back and spend a bit more time exploring around this area.

Kimberley trip 2015 - a day at the rock. Uluru.

The campground is definitely not my kind of camping. Had I known about the power station I would not have camped here but we've managed to do 2 loads of washing and have had showers even if they were luke warm.

The campground was packed and people started getting up really early to do the drive in to the national park to see the sunrise. We will do this tomorrow. We are now waiting in line to get into the national park and are going to do the base walk. It costs $25 per adult for a 3 day pass, the minimum pass. Kids under 15 are free.

Sam had been really excited to see the rock and spoke to his sister's over the phone telling them ask about it.

Wow what an awesome experience! Being so close to the rock and taking the time to do the base walk was really worth it. It is hard to explain and hard to get in pictures but i tried my hardest to do so. You just have to experience it for yourself.