Have not seen a cloud in the sky since we left SA. ☔️☁️. Makes you start to question WHY we choose to live in Melbourne?!…of course home is where family and friends are.
Bring on 65, these Nomads have an awesome life!!

Hi it is Holly and I just want to say so far our holiday has been grate all the places we’ve been to from martins bend in SA to Mataranka in NT have been awesome and it’s been great in the outback.

And thankyou to everyone who have been reading and commenting on our blog.

Today we had a really short drive to Mataranka homestead national park. It took about an hour and a half to get here from Daly waters. It’s a really nice caravan park we all like it the best so far.

While mum and dad were setting up the camper van, Holly, Sam and I went for a walk around a track called rainbow springs loop. As we walked around it we saw the thermal pool which had the rainbow spring going through it, the water was really clear even though it had a sandy bottom.

There was another river but this river was dirty and it was much bigger it was called the Waterhouse river. After we came back the whole family got in their Bathers and we all went for a swim. The pool was really hot and it was 33 degrees it is like being in a tropical rain forest. Sam loved the water he was going nuts and didn’t want to come out.

While we were eating dinner there were wallabies and peacocks that were stealing our food, we could also pat them and hand feed them. This place is awesome. Tomorrow we are going to swim at Bitter Springs.

Bye Max

Well it’s been an eventful day. We started early from Devils Marble and it turned hot pretty quickly with a top of 30 degrees. 40km out from our destination Daly Waters we blew a caravan tyre it was loud and quick, thankfully when we pulled to the side a lovely family pulled up behind us to help. “Smithy” was an army man posted from Sydney to Darwin, he helped Adam change the spare tyre and got us going again in 30 mins the tyre was shredded to pieces. Thank god for Smithy, he wasn’t at all bad ladies on the eye either buffed with tattoos, I’m always looking for the positive. 😜 They followed us to Daly Water where we were able to get a spare tyre. Adam got a blister on his palm in the first 2 Minutes trying to jack up the trailer thank god Smithy was able to take over.
Daly Water is an experience not to be missed. We have had a great meal and listened to more great country singers. Bra’s undies stubby
Holders all hanging from the bar. Adam stapled his Berwick Angling Club card to the wall. I didn’t hand over a bra a little embarrassed of the size !!!

This place is packed! Caravans jammed in we won’t be going anywhere in the morning until the Grey Nomads sober up.

Off to Mataranka tomorrow looking forward to relaxing in some hot springs. Xx

Today Me Max and Sam played on the jumping pillow while mum and dad packed the caravan up to go to the next destination Devils Marbles.
We went to Alice springs to do some shopping. It was nice and very big.

After a 4 hour drive we got to Devils Marbles got set up very Quickly it was very busy since it only cost us $7 as a family as it is a national park. We went for a Walk around the rocks and climb some large ones mum was freaking out saying”get down from there” but we were with dad so we still did it while mum took photos. Sam loves this place ( but he says that at every place we go to.) It is 26 degrees today. A lot if campers got kicked out of park today by ranger Because they had a dog, he was fining them $600!!!
Getting up early tomorrow as we’re going to Daly Waters Pub to stay. Sorry our photos aren’t coming through we think it is the reception as it drops in and out through towns.

Arrived at Alice Springs SAFELY after Adam decided to take a 250km short cut on an unsealed off road detour. OMG started off exciting for first 2 minutes then become a little scary. Road was safe but it was very corrugated could only do around 50-60km/h. The entire car and van was jumping around. The scenery was amazing the road very wide and very RED sandy dirt, had it have been wet season there would have been some river crossings (Adam wouldn’t have coped with that kind of pressure). We were celebrating at the end of the 100km when we meet with the Stuart Hwy. We have arrived at Alice Springs with a red car and van it was an experience that we can look back on and laugh about. The park is a really nice Big 4 we haven’t seen Alice yet as while Adam was cleaning van, kids where playing on jumping pillow and checking out pool. Will do some adventuring around the place tomorrow….. Hope everyone is well.

Only a short drive today to Kings Canyon from Uluru. Best camping grounds so far. Beautiful pool surrounded in grass (rare here) and wild dingos walking through camp grounds. We conquered a 6km bush walk around the Canyon which was spectacular (couldn’t not do it after Traity told us it was a must) To our surprise Sammy walked the whole way. It was amazing and tough, lots of hills and rocks to climb. Max was in his element spotting what he thinks was a small monitor lizard and 3 other little spotted lizards.
We had a BBQ outback dinner while listening to a country singer. Steak and barramundi, Sam was dancing pretty funny. Had a drink at the Thirsty dingo bar. Love this place off the Alice tomorrow.

Wow huge day, we started with a camel ride which was the highlight of the kids trip! It was fun even Sam was cheering with excitement, they are a huge animal but such softies. They are taken out of the wild as adults and trained in 6 months amazing. Then we went to the rock, so much more amazing than we ever imagined. It is a must see in your lifetime. Beautiful. We then went for a couple of walks as well as the cultural centre. Kids have learnt SO much. We also saw 2 dingo’s within 5 meters from us. Then we come back to resort and kids had a swim in the pool. At 5:00 we left back to the rock to watch the sunset. Great day we are all filthy and exhausted. Sam rolled around in pretty much every red dust pile he could find and often in bare feet it was hard to tell him apart of the indigenous! So many photos wish I could blog them all but they are on my camera. So here is a couple of shots off the phone!

Up early on our way from Coober Pedy to Uluru. Arrived at 3:00pm to Ayres Rock Resort Caravan Park. Stopped at some interesting roadhouses along the way Petrol is $2.15 a litre now. Resort is huge it has 3 hotels, shopping centre and caravan parks. Getting up tomorrow to check out the Rock, and do some walks and watch the sunset tomorrow night. Very busy now a lot of caravans on the roads.