My first task on arriving back in Edinburgh after our three trains trip was to drop my daughter and two nephews at the airport for their departure to their Turkish holiday destination, leaving us to look after her house for a few days. This gave us the opportunity to visit three attractions and to have lunch with my brother and family.
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One of our ‘side trips’ involved three trains in a circular journey to the north. We have a number of these organised, generally during the weeks, with weekends based in Edinburgh. This means that we are away when my children are at work and able to catch up with them and the grandchildren at the weekends. This is my first visit back to Scotland since my mother died in 2019, so it makes it easier to go travelling.
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Our big trip for 2023 is dramatically different from our trips of the previous two years – rather than being on the road with the camper trailer, our arrangements favour a long flight and staying with relatives, friends and in Bed & Breakfasts. Our arrival into Edinburgh airport after a journey that extended over about 30 hours, including 21 in the air, was a thankful outcome after a last minute potential major hiccup.
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In my post ‘The Red Centre’, I mentioned that I was intrigued by the geology of Uluru and Kata Tjuta and that I would write a post with some basic explanations about their similarities and differences and some more photographs. Well, here it is!
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Having arrived back home on Friday, I have spent the intervening time unpacking and adjusting to the colder and wetter weather. There is still much to do including piles of washing and giving the trailer a good spring clean to try to remove the worst of the red dust. But first, I have the last few days of our trip to report on.
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Although it seemed as if we had just arrived at the red centre, the time soon arrived for us to be heading south. We were bracing ourselves for the return to colder and more unsettled weather, but we were not prepared for two separate stormy nights, within the space of five nights.
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It is now more than a week since we left the red centre, and even longer since we arrived at Kings Canyon. I have been a bit slack in preparing a post about our adventures there, although, in fairness to myself, we have also covered a few kilometres since then, leaving little time for writing and reviewing heaps of photographs.
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On our way to four nights in each of the East and West MacDonnell Ranges, we had the luxury of two night in an Alice Springs hotel – the Mercure. Apart from the two hour wait for our room to be ready and the bizarre room light switching (which meant reading in bed with a head torch – just like camping), this time allowed us to wash clothes and restock our provisions.
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Rather than the planned four nights at Litchfield, we only had three, meaning that we didn’t have time to cover all the possible walks and waterfalls. However, we managed to squeeze in as much as possible, starting with the afternoon we arrived.
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Our planned departure from Mataranka to Litchfield National Park on Tuesday morning was to be a quick visit to the mechanics to re-grease and re-fit the cup on the wheel. However, things did not end up as planned (this seems to be the story of this trip).
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