Thursday, August 11, 2005
Day 26 – 11/08/05, Aileron, NT.
We'd meant to go to the Alice Springs Desert park this morning and spend time there until 2 o'clock when our car was due to be given in for a service. We stayed at a backpacker's last night and got all our things charged – laptop, camera batteries, HDD etc. But we were very late starting off this morning and weren't out until past 10.00. So we skipped the desert park and instead went to an internet cafe and updated the blog site. Then did a quick shopping trip to buy a Namatjira print. That left just enough time to buy lunch and then take the car down to the garage.
Soon after picking up the car and filling up the tanks we headed north towards Tennent Creek and Darwin. Stopped at 6.30 in Aileron, at a campground here.
We made some calculations that evening and found out that it would take us about 5-6 weeks to travel the Kimberleys and get back to Melbourne. We only had about 3 weeks at the most, since we had to get to India by the end of the month at the latest! So we had to change plans on the fly and decided to turn back and spend more time in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. This was disappointing since the Kimberleys were to be the highlight of the trip. But on the positive side, we could save that for a later trip, and that would be something to look forward to.
