We arrived in Alice Springs, the centre of Australia and the middle of a desert, to be greeted by rain and a closed town as it was a bank holiday. Luckily the flying doctors station was open for a brief tour, as was the excellent reptile centre where all the local creepies, crawlies and slidies were kept. Ness particularly liked the python! Luckily, the following morning we got out of town and started a tour of the "local" (meaning within about 600km) sights. We first headed for the craggy, colourful features of Rainbow Valley. After a brief stop to meet the world famous Dinky the Singing Dingo, we drove to Kings Creek Station, a cattle station in the middle of nowhere, to spend the night sleeping under the stars on swags. The following morning after an
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