A town like Alice...is there another one?

The country side is awash with flowers, trees, grasses and water, water everywhere. On the way to Alice we heard the Birdsville Track is still closed to cars with caravans in tow and some poor chap was on the radio and he’s been stuck in Innamincka for 3 days and no chance of getting out in the new future as the Cooper Creek is still flooded, so looks like we may the right decision to go the long way round…..so far we’re up to 5000km and still going strong!
Nice little town, very busy, maybe that’s down to the Masters Games. We did the usual tourist things a drive along the MacDonnell Ranges, Simpsons Gap, Standley Chasm and then felt a bit “gorged” so we missed the next lot and headed off to Ormiston Gorge – very impressive and with all the rains they’ve had around here the place is very green with flowers everywhere, we had a few rivers to cross and the car went through with trepidation but made it back in one piece with no danger lights on. Saw the sunset from ANZAC Hill, nice…the Master Games opening ceremony was on in the local park so we had a good view from the Hill and they played that great song as they marched in…Waltzing Matilda…
Lots of eagles on the side of the road chewing on road kill but some of them are so big you’d wonder if they’d actually killed the beast and were just tucking in.
We then headed off to Uluru, about 500km south of Alice and found a free campsite at Curtin Springs, funny – no power, no phone coverage but great internet connection! Technology , ay? Its amazing the distance between everywhere, Curtin Springs is about 100km from Uluru and about 200km from Kings Canyon, which we’re told is worth the trip
Spectacular sunset at Uluru, but before that we had a stroll around and I even climbed a bit of the rock, didn’t have time to go too high as I would’ve missed the sunset (that’s my excuse anyway). … we then drove back to the free camp at Curtin Springs, tomorrow Kings Canyon….