In Alice Springs we take the time to restock with food, water and fuel. A visit to the Anzac lookout, we particularly note the wreaths remembering the massacre of indigenous people at Skull Creek (1874 ) and Barrow Creek (1928).

We also visit the old telegraph station, what a fascinating historical site, it could be thought of as the beginning of the end of the loneliness remote communities had to endure before the installation of the single wire telegraph system from Adelaide to Darwin. The old buildings and displays of period technology and every item of life in those times is interesting.

We take time to stop a photograph some of the waterways, they seem to have had major floods come through earlier in the year so there is still plenty of water about.

We travel along the Finke River making camp at Palm Valley long before dark, it’s a stunningly beautiful place with its rugged iron coloured sandstone hills. There is still water in the river and plenty of evidence of the flooding that occurred several times during the wet season just passed.

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