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January 11, 2007
A day off to recover
It's been fairly quiet around Alice now that Christmas and New Year's are over. I went up to Tennant Creek on a few days off with Nat. She does a trip every couple of weeks for Bush Bus, essentially an aboriginal greyhound service for the outback. It was an early start goin around to the camps in Alice Springs to pick up passengers and some cargo.
There's not a lot to look at on the trip to Tennant except for trees, rocks and the occasional dry creek bed. That said, the recent rain meant that everything had greened up a lot so although it was barren, it was green. Green plants, red earth and blue sky is a striking combination.
This trip pushed my northern boundary of exploration a little further - Tennant is roughly 450km north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The trip also offered me my first glance of the Devil's Marbles; The north Stuart Highway cuts right through them. The Marbles are a formation of eerily round rocks that sit balanced on other rocks. You can't really see the formations as the postcards depict so I reckon I'll have to stop there sometime when I get a chance.
When we were in Tennant I did finally get a chance to photograph one of the roadtrains that makes its way from Adelaide to Darwin and vice versa via Alice Springs.
Other than that it's been mostly work - I'm doing dayshifts now. It's good to get some nights off to myself. The golf game has suffered because of it (still been too lazy to get up for 9 holes before starting work) but I should have more inspiration to get out now that Max is back from holidays. An early wake-up is always more likely if you know that someone is waiting for you and suffering the same type of morning. Like they (you know - them) say, it's for the love of the game (and always will be for me, cause my golf game is crap).
The Todd River flowed again so I'm wary of that. They (again...) say that if you've seen the Todd River flow three times you're on your way to becoming an Alice local. Maybe I can use that if I talk to immigration. I'll tell 'em I've seen the river flow 3 times so now they've gotta give me citizenship. They could turn it into a quest. Come to Australia and see the Todd flow - become an Aussie.
Posted by Dr.Unk at January 11, 2007 1:05 AM
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