Day 15 - Alice Springs to Renner Springs

Day 15 - Alice Springs to Renner Springs

Alice Springs was extremely cold this morning, it was raining and really a sad day. Have to keep moving, I have a flight to take on Sunday from Darwin and there are lots of things to do on the way.




The camping in Alice Springs, very nice and reasonable

The camping however, very nice and with a great tavern next door to it. There was music on the night before; country music. I've never liked country music very much, but this time, I loved it.

There was a funny incident at the tavern. The musician wanted to sing some love songs, so he asked the audience who is in love... there was silence, even though there were many couples, so there I was, sitting on my own writing the post and I put my hand up. He said: 'Great, where is your girl' and I said, she is not here, I am travelling alone. He was surprised and said to all the audience: 'blokes, you should be ashamed of yourselves' And all the women started saying things to their partners, not nice things. Anyway, he asked what song I'd like him to play. I said: 'I've got a friend' from Carol King. He didn't know it. Then I said 'I will always love you' from Whitney Houston. He didn't know that one either. he said that he only knows country songs, so he chose one for me.

Alice Springs, from Anzac Hill.

On the way north, I crossed the Tropic of Capricorn (for the third time during this trip), but the sign was so nice that I thought it deserved a photo. do you see the band on the globe?

The sign at the bottom of the globe

Then a bit more north I saw these incredible sculptures that could be seen from the distance. Look at this.

The view from the road, 2 females on the ground and a make up the hill

A closer view

Look at the size of this thing!



Something else that amazed me was that the females were anatomically correct, it is usually normal to see anatomically correct male statues, but have never seen a female one.

Continuing the trip up north, I came across Wycliffe, where they claim is the 'Capital UFO' of Australia. Apparently there are UFO sightings here almost weekly. It all taken with a bit of fun.

The 'aliens' of Waycliffe



Now nobody can say I wasn't here

The shops of course are full of aline paraphernalia

The local press helps maintain the concept

And more from the press

I loved this one

Now, there are actually genuine 'aliens' in this place, there is a crab. yeah a crab! that lives here. Thousands of kilometres to the nearest ocean. this crab buries itself in the mud and so creates a humid environment where it can survive the dry season. It can survive up to a year without water of food. If you want to look it up, it's called the desert crab (Halthuisiana transversa).


And that's it. I pushed it very hard to get to Renner Springs before it got dark. A distance of approx 700km's. Crossed a few Kangaroos on the way, but luckily, none too close.



When I arrived to Renner Springs, I was greeted by the local geese

I did not have internet or mobile signal at Renner Springs, so I am doing yesterday post, today.