Baked Carrots

  After a quick hello to Jack and Alice, we headed west to a lovely ridgetop camp at Redbank gorge. It was great to spend a few days, with amazing weather, seeing the gorge (with icy swims) climbing Rwetyepme (pronounced roo-choop-ma) aka Mt Sonder We spent a fair bit of time reading books and sleeping too. Feeling very relaxed already Rwetyepme hiking up Rwetyepme a bit more up Redbank gorge swim hole Serpentine gorge - swimming not allowed Ellery big hole - another great swim afternoon sit and birdwatch warming up after a swim our camp at Redbank back to Alice Springs now to resupply and then head out with Jack and Alice to Hugh gorge for the weekend

After another big day of driving we made it to Alice. Spent the evening getting to know Bert and then he showed us the way up Mt John.

We've left the farm in the capable hands of Meisha and, after a visit with family in Adelaide, are heading north. Here's our first desert camp - somewhere near Coober Pedy Our trusty farm ute has been set up as an off-road tourer again. This time with a basic plywood box for for a kitchen and storage with a rooftop tent. There's also a big awning on the kitchen side which we didn't need to open as we rolled in late and left early morning to do big kms to get to Alice Springs.