Amanda August 24th, 2008
It’s been extremely cold here in Alice Springs for the past two weeks. When I say cold, I mean we’ve had days where the maximum temperature has been 14 degrees celsius. This is cold. (Alright. If you’re reading this and you live in Iceland, Halifax or even Chicago, I take your point. 14 C (57F) isn’t cold for you … but it is for us!).
So we haven’t done much except watch the Olympics. And we’re not going to talk about the Olympics here, are we? We’re not going to mention that we are a tad annoyed that the Pommies (the English) have more gold medals than we do (until the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010, that is, when we’ll woop their lily-white backsides), nor that we really sucked at cycling and rowing this time, when usually we’re really good. Let’s face it …
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Amanda August 16th, 2008
Do you have items in your house that simply vanish? You know, things that seem to mysteriously disappear from one day to the next, or alternatively, items so rarely encountered in your house, that they probably should be classified as critically endangered species or even as extinct?
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Amanda August 4th, 2008
This weekend (the last NT long weekend until Christmas) we did some off-track walking in the south-east Waterhouse Ranges. The Waterhouse Ranges are only 50km from Alice Springs, located on Owen Springs Reserve. We climbed a pinnacle and ate camel stew made from one of Watarrka’s former feral residents.
Owen Springs holds a special place in our hearts. It was Gadget’s first official posting as a Senior Park Ranger and is also the place where our relationship began. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know we camp and bushwalk on Owen Springs fairly regularly. It’s a large Reserve (158,000ha), so there’s lots of it to explore.
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