On the road to Darwin!

The drive from Alice Springs to Darwin is 1500kms, broken up every 3 to 4 hundred kms by little towns or more often just a road house and although they're often basic they're a fun part of the whole experience! The caravan parks themselves are usually a big piece of open land where vans etc line up next to each other with a power box next to you, usually no water hook up, and an amenities block that you dont hang around and luxuriate in! Surprisingly though they often have a pool. Our usual routine would be to drive between 830am and 3pm including stops, pull into a roadhouse, stay hooked up to the van so we can head off first thing the next morning (no need to unhitch cos theres nowhere to go except the roadhouse bar anyway!) If theres a pool we cool off cos it got very hot after Alice, poke around the roadhouse and then after dinner the boys would have a game of pool before heading back to the van and bed. We met a lot of lovely people and funny characters at the roadhouses and at one a group of grey nomads we'd been following all day taught the boys how to play disc bowls on a patch of grass amongst the dust pile!
We've passed a lot of road trains (extremely large trucks) but the most exciting are the quads with four carriages and the oversize ones when we have to stop and pull over.
The first photo is of the Tropic of Capricorn. The aboriginal art just suddenly loomed up in the distance -its made from metal, and the art gallery pretty much made up the whole town of Aileron! The aliens are a feature of one town as its supposedly had a number of UFO sitings?!
The photos of the rock formations are the Devils Marbles, very beautiful and geoligically amazing how they came about. Yet again, tooke millions of years!