HOMEWARD BOUND

This is our last night in Alice Springs. We are starting our homeward bound journey tomorrow morning. We plan on stopping at free camps Tuesday night and Wednesday night and then stay at a caravan park at Coober Pedy on the Thursday night. If all goes according to plan we will make Coober Pedy Thursday morning and it will give us a full day to recharge our batteries (not to mention the caravan batteries and water tanks).


Friday night and Saturday night will again be at free camps with our possible last one being 34km north of Port Augusta. We may then make one last dash home on the Sunday.

This is the plan at this stage but it is always subject to change. We may decide we like the camp tomorrow night and want to stay an extra day, in which case we won’t hit Coober Pedy until the Friday morning. We may make the last leg stretch over 2 days instead of one long run home on the Sunday. We will play it all by ear.

I won’t have phone or internet connections after tonight until we get to Coober Pedy and will only do a blog then if time and energy permits. If I don’t do one then I will do a catch up blog on our arrival back in Adelaide.

We have had a wonderful time on this trip and although it is not yet over we know we are now heading home rather than off to some other adventure and that is a bit sad because we have confirmed we love doing this whole Grey Nomad thing!

Whilst we have seen a huge number of budgies, finches and - to a lesser extent - cockatiels and smaller predator birds, the absence of wildlife is notable.  We have seen 1 wedgetail eagle sitting on the side of the road, one hovering in the distance, one kangaroo, one emu, two camels, some brumbies and a few lizards.  Apparrently with the rains this area has been having there is plenty of feed for all the wildlife and they don't need to come within cooee of humans!  We did see some hoof prints in one area and what looked like dingo paw prints but that is about all.  It is disappointing because we had hoped to see a lot more wildlife.  The trip is not over yet and we may see some on the way home (hopefully not on the road).