Monday 2 September An early wake up again, but this time I was not tempted to get out of bed early, it was a day for a lie in, we have chores to do today but they can wait for a short while. Eventually getting into the day, we manage to get out for a while, so we head up to the Superpit Shop, this used to be in Boulder but since we were here last time it has now moved up to a location on the Goldfields Highway, where there is an old mine that is now a museum and the Mining and Engineering Training facility for KCGM. Paying our $2 each to have a look around we head outside, there are a couple of huge pieces of equipment here, a wheeled front end loader ... read more

Great Central Road Day 3 Friday 30 August 3 months today since we started our road trip and already we feel like we have been having more intrepid adventures than our previous trip around Australia, we have definitely been more remote, spending more time bush camping and doing more challenging tracks. I opened my eyes to the new day, my body clock is still on Central Standard Time, although we drove through the time zone yesterday which puts us 1 1/2 hours behind the Northern Territory, my watch says 7am yet it should really be 5.30am, I jump out of bed and grab my camera to go for a wander, I was still curious as to what was over the ridge that we were camping near, Andy shouts to me "watch out for snakes!" I always ... read more

Australia’s Longest Shortcut Wednesday 28 August I was already up by the time Caroline woke up this morning, it was a cool morning but the sun would soon be up over the dune and it would be getting warm quite quickly. As soon as I realised Caroline was stirring I thrust a morning cuppa in to in her hands. We wanted to get a good jump on the day, our Uluru parks pass had expired yesterday and today we were leaving Uluru heading to the Western Australian border. Sitting outside we ate toast and jam for breakfast, and then got onto the packing up, it was quick and easy this morning, before 9am it was already getting warm the temperature expecting to get to 33 degrees today. I have to say Uluru (Aryes Rock) was nothing ... read more

Curtin Springs to Uluru Sunday 25 August Definitely a cold morning, we didn't get up until 7.30, Andy got the kettle on and I started to prepare the inside of Gypsy for our departure. We had a quick bacon and egg sandwich and finished packing up. It looks like Emu had some fun in the night, we think she must have walked into the poles of our awning, they had moved and the guide ropes had gone saggy, poor thing must have wondered what was in her path. She looks old but quite content hanging around the campers. We were on the road at 8.52, we seem to be much improved on our start times, I remember our last trip, most often we were not on the road until nearly 10am with all the packing up ... read more

Kings Canyon - Curtin Springs I was out of bed at 7.30 and we soon got into packing up mode, Andy re inflated the tyres as we will now be on bitumen all the way to Uluru, unfortunately one side of the compressor has stopped working which meant that he had to finish re inflating the tyres at the garage before we left the resort. We both had a thoroughly great time at Kings Canyon it felt like a holiday, I would be tempted to do the rim walk again this morning, but we do need to move on, we actually pulled out of the Kings Canyon Resort at 8.53 Our plan for the day is to drive to Curtin Springs which is only about 50k's before you get to Uluru, otherwise we have a 314k ... read more