Blogs from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 50

Hello to you, Just a short amount of text with these photos cause the internet place i am in is taking my trousers down its so expensive...anyway these are from our three night trip to the red middle in Oz, its taken me a while but at here they are, hooray! In J-Bay, South Africa..at the moment, love it. will write more on thsi blog when i have time, enjoy the snaps, melbourne and adelaide are next. Peace and love Keep it real, hang loose. Thommo aka afro...seriously i have BIG hair. P.S....don't forget to have a look at the photos on the other pages as i put load's on for this blog!... read more

Work is getting better now that I've worked out the rythm. And we haven't quite been so hammered now: we were on call and only got 4 new patients. I had a great weekend. Well, a mixed, mostly great weekend. I slept in (for a start), then I went to see the Royakl Flying Doctors Service Base. Which, none too surprisingly is on the hospital grounds. When we were there, the radio operator was having the weekend off, s all the calls were being switched through to the local (St John's) ambos. So the guide explained what was being shown on the board: there was a "routine" flight out to the west, and one down to Yurala (The RFDS base near Uluru) which was an emergencyu, some tourists had rolled their car. When I got to ... read more

Having travelled on the 'mighty' Indian Pacific for 44 hours from Perth to Adelaide, our 19 hour journey on the 'legendary' Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs went surprisingly quickly. 'The Ghan' is pretty much identical to 'The Indian Pacific', except it travels between Adelaide and Darwin, stopping only at Alice Springs in the middle. So when we arrived at midday on the 24th Feb, the serious increase in temperature hit us immediately when we stepped out of the train. Scorchio! Thankfully our hostel, 'The Alice Lodge', was complete with a pool, which was pretty much where we spent the rest of the day. At 6am the next morning, we were picked up for the beginning of our 3 day/2 night, longawaited 'Rock Tour'. At that time of the morning we were all pretty sleppy still, ... read more

url='/Videos/2582.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2582.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Abboriginal paintings at Uluruurl='/Videos/2583.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2583.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Spanky teaching us at the Olgas Ahh finally! If you ever want to feel youre in Australia then Alice springs and Uluru is the place to come. This place is a truely beautiful and spiritual place where you can almost feel the Aboriginal spirits that you are told about when you visit this place. I stayed in a lovely little backpager lodge called Annies Place. They ran their own 3 day trip to Uluru so after an early night(the first in ages) i was up around 5.30am (and missing the Barca liverpool game which was driving me mad till i found out the score a few hours later :o) ) to head off to the Kings Canyon with "Spanky" as our tour guide. No... read more

Actually, if I write this the instant I get here, as I am, I won't have any stories to tell... Well, sort of. Drove down to the Airport, all was well, got there in plenty of time, you know, 50 minutes before the flight, 20 minutes before check in closes... Now, I've never been to terminal 3 at Kingsford Smith before, so maybe this is normal, but it was absolutely full of people. Like, people everywhere. I try to find a check-in counter... but there aren't any. So it's Automatic check in or the highway... and it's 2,800 km between Sydney and here. The line-ups are huge, which means I don't get my bag checked in until 20 minutes before the flight, and I don't get through airport security (even though they opened a third security ... read more