Day 8
 We are up early as we have a 2hr trip to the "rock", we have a fixed wing flight booked for 10am courtesy of Kristy & Shane our kids. After paying our $25/head to enter park we then find that the flight originates from outside park. So we quickly backtrack and locate their office only to find that all their aircraft are down for maintenance, we have had this booked for nearly 6mths and they failed to notify us not happy. They got us to wait for an hour until the pilot arrived and luck have it they gave us a sunset helicopter flight over not only the rock but also the Olgas, cheering now. The flight was not till 4.45pm so we went back to park and did the tour of the aboriginal heritage tour and the Marli walk around the rock. Was pleasantly surprised at how few people were about.
 A great place and we ticked another to do off our list.

 Day 9
God its bloody cold this morn, up at 6am -2c and the fingers will not work as we pack for our drive to Alice.

Have booked into the G'Day Mate caravan park, a great park and we got a good site, met a lot of fellow travellers here even a couple whose car had broken down and had to be towed in. We managed to land here same time as the Alice show was on so town was pretty full of aborigines just camping in the Todd River. We have 3 days here and will spend one day touring the West Macs and another the East Macs

Day 10
We head off to see Simpsons Gap and Stanley Chasm, Wendy handled the gap walk ok but the chasm walk up a river bed was a bit to much for her as she failed to wear suitable socks and her shoes rubbed. We had planned to keep going to Glen Helen but time had beaten us we decided to head back and stop at the Desert Springs Park.

Day 11 ,
A lazy start today first priority is to get all our washing up to date, so by 11am we are off to see Jessie & Emily Gap then Trephina gorge all only max of 45min from town. I have promised Wendy that upon our return we will go into town so she can do some souvenir shopping and some much needed food restocking, oh and alcohol. While doing this I found a camping store that was selling hiking walking sticks on special only $39 so grabbed one for Wendy.
The both gaps were spectacular and only a very short walk to both from carpark. The gorge was a bit further but the return trip we took our shoes off and walked back in the water so refreshing.

Day 12
 Again an early start as we need to make up a day as we spent 3days at Alice instead of our planned 2, we had planned to make the trip to Katherine a 2 stop but now we will do only 1. We stopped at Banka Banka station and it was magic, great facilities great showers and great hosts, was pretty full but still enough room to not feel crowded in. They have a nightly fire but we were to tired and went to bed early as we need to be on the road again early to get to Katherine at a good time.
 Our first misshap we have run the batteries mt so will now need to stay at a powered site so I can recharge.