Today we made the long (for us) trek from Curtin Springs to Alice Springs, all on good quality sealed roads and with surprisingly light traffic. Much of the route was on the Stuart Highway, the main North South road to Darwin, and it provided a good diet of "Red Center" scenery, rolling hills of red sand soil broken by regular creek crossings with their Red River Gums and/or Snow Gums with various mountain ranges in the distance. A good highway to drive for anyone that wants a taste of Central Australian scenery without the dust and currugations of the unpaved roads that make up the Red Center tourist loop.

The windmill photo is a token reminder for Nina and I of the "Red Center" scenery.

The bird is a cockateel one of the many variety of parrot type birds we have seen in the past few weeks.

Ronan accompanied us again this morning for the first 160km of the drive along the Lassiter Highway. He was heading south towards Port Augusta so we dropped him at the junction of the Lassiter and Stuart Highways.