Today we woke to sunshine but cold.  The nights get down to about 6C degrees and the days are around 16C degrees.  We had to go into town to buy a few things (& we bought a few things we don’t need).  It is a public holiday today, Territory Picnic Day.  We were very lucky the Electoral Office was open, but not lucky enough, we couldn’t vote – we filled out request for postal voting forms & they promised to send relevant forms for postal voting to Kununurra Post Office.  It has been a fairly ordinary day but we wandered around Alice Springs and discovered places we haven’t seen, like a lovely park in the middle of town and some more lovely art galleries.

The excitement for the day was when our friends Sue & John arrived this afternoon with their (still white) brand new Vista caravan – very nice.  We had dinner together & then we went to a 4WD information night, the caravan park special – it was very interesting.  It also made up our minds to go through the Tanami Desert (even though it has been wet & maybe we shouldn’t) instead of going the long way around, because we met a couple who just crossed it coming from the opposite direction and they reckon it is rough but o.k. 

We are staying in Alice Springs for another day, we have to do some business and our friends had a few days of hard driving & they need a rest, to buy a few things & have some time to sort things out in their new caravan.