Northern Territory

After leaving Kununurra, we crossed over the border to the Northern Territory and lost an hour and a half!

We pretty much spent 3 days driving. We stopped at Katherine for the night and Tennant Creek for the night too. It's been a lot of driving (which Rich does, he won't let me as he's a crap passenger and will fall asleep. So while driving I read Magazines out and we do crosswords to keep us both from being bored!) Driving around Oz is an adventure in itself. Not least because of the distances, the (sometimes dull) scenery and the odd little towns, but because the amount and range of wild life. It's unreal!! We've seen the usaul kangaroos (alive and squished) and emu's, but also wild cows, dingoes, Goannas (a type of lizard), wallabys, a huge buffalo of some sort, massive eagles and the best one....a donkey!! All just hanging out on the road or by the side.

Between Tenant Creek and Alice Springs we made a few little stops. One was at 'devils marbles' which is a load of very large round rocks balanced on each other, formed by fast cooling volcanic explosions. Next was a place called Wycliffe Well, which we passed and then had to turn around to go back and look at! It's the alien spotting capital of Australia, they had a big alien theme going on at this roadhouse and inside the walls were covered with all manner of alien sightings and parafanalia, was highly amusing!

Later on as we'd stopped for petrol, we were just pulling out and Rich's window was open a bit. All of a sudden he jumped and leant right away from the window, I looked and there was the biggest spider sat on the edge of the window, half in, half out. Rich pulled over and set about trying to get rid of it. Man it was big. If I'd have been driving I would've jumped into the passenger seat and probably crashed. Maybe it's good that I don't drive! Anyway, I consulted my book of spiders and it was a type of Wolf Spider, can be dangerous if provoked but not deadly! Even so, it gave us both a fright, check out the picture he was enormous!!

So, after all that excitement we arrive at Alice Springs.