ALICE SPRINGS: WILD ROCKWALLABY

Hii,
I kind of forgot to write about something very special in the last post..
On our last day in Alice Springs we saw a wallaby!
Now you might think; 'What is a wallaby again...?'
According to Wikipedia:
A wallaby is any of about thirty species of Macropodidae family. It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been designated otherwise.

Okay, maybe this doesn't work.. Basically a wallaby is similar to a kangaroo, but smaller. Our tour guide in Uluru told us the main difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo is that a kangaroo has his tail connected to his spine, which makes him able to jump with his tail. A wallaby has his tail not connected to his spine, so he can not stand on it.

Here are some pictures of the wild rockwallaby we saw.

SPOT THE WALLABY! Aren't they hard to see!? We waited for half an hour, we were looking and looking, but suddenly there was a wallaby sitting next to my dad. So strange, but so funny.

Love,
Isabelle

ALICE SPRINGS

Hiii,

On the 29^th of July we had an approximately 3 hour flight from Sydney airport to Alice Springs.

Alice Springs is located in the centre of Australia as you can see on this map:

Alice Springs is a small town with 20.000 inhabitants.

We stayed here because the next day we were being picked up at 6 at our hotel by a little van from Adventure Tours.

We stayed in the middle of nowhere for 3 days. We camped and slept under the stars in swags.

(Swags are little beds you put over your sleeping bag.)

Sleeping under the stars there was one of the most amazing things I have ever done. There were SO many stars; it was incredible. People had already told me it was going to be gorgeous but when I was there and looked up I was shocked.

It is hard to explain what it was like, I think you will have to see it yourself to be able to share my emotions.

During those days we walked through Uluru, Kings Canyon and The Olgas and learned much about the culture of the Aboriginals.

We had a nice group and an amazing tour guide! In our group were two Canadian girls who were really funny and sweet!

We decided to stay in touch. It is lovely and so interesting to meet people from all over the world!

The second day was after my opinion the best. We were driving in the bus when suddenly our tour guide –her name was Q- said: ‘Oh yeah, I forgot to say that there is the opportunity to do a helicopter flight!’

My parents decided to ‘just’ do it. SO WE DID!

It was SO COOL!

We flew over the Kings Canyon, and it was so beautiful and so much fun!

We felt like pros with our headphones and microphone. Amazing.

On Friday the second of August we flew from Alice Springs to Cairns, were we are now, for the tropical sea part of our holiday.

More about Cairns later.

Uluru at sunset.

Now lots of photos of the helicopter ride!

On the last day we hiked through Kings Canyon. 

-The mountains you see on the photos made in the helicopter.-

Love,

Isabelle