DAY 13 – KINGS CANYON – ALICE SPRINGS
Ok. Can’t say that I am devastated to be leaving Kings Canyon. Beautiful place but the weather was not fantastic and the lack of bread, milk, phone etc was starting to get to me. Up early and off by 8:30am (which is not bad for everyone to be showered and dressed and fed and van packed up). It is a pity that the Merrinee Loop through Hermannsburg is not sealed. Or the Ernest Giles Track. It would have saved us a couple of hundred kilometres. Stopped at Erldunda (back on the Stuart Highway) for lunch because we only had enough bread for sandwiches for the kids and no fruit. So we were all starving. My hunting and gathering husband came back from the roadhouse with one moderate bag of chips. $8.50!!!!! A burger was $12.00!!! So the Hansen family starved until Alice Springs!! The kids did quite a bit of school work in the car on the way here. We physically could not stop Ben – even when we told him he needed a break, he told us he couldn’t stop – he was addicted!! God help us!
It was rather exciting driving into Alice Springs – being a fan of “A Town Like Alice”. It is reasonably big for only 28,000 people but it obviously services a much larger community. You cannot imagine my excitement at seeing a Coles, Woolworths AND Target!! When Beth and I caught sight of a Sushi shop we almost fainted!! David and Ben gallantly put up the van on the most enormous van site I have even seen. We can fit our van, annexe, tent and car all on the site. The Big 4 in Alice Springs might be a bit more expensive, but it is certainly worth it!! Beautiful camp kitchens, clean facilities AND a jumping pillow! What more could a girl want?
Spend the afternoon shopping for new runners for David and Bridget and some clothes for poor little Tess. Having been very organised and packed the van early, I then had to take Tess’ clothes OUT for school camp. Then promptly forgot to put them back!! The poor love has been wearing the same pair of pants for two weeks!! Being her birthday and all, I thought I could shout her a new pair of $5.00 pants from Kmart!
Got back to the park in time for the Parsons to shout our kids pancakes, and chocolate mousse and hot chocolates etc. – all from a little shop at the caravan park!! Sooo nice!!
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