Alice Springs NT – Day 1

Tuesday 31st May 2022
Today was a day of organising and planning. We booked our transfer for the Larapinta Trail to start on Friday morning. It was a little tricky as our Caravan Park is outside the pickup zone, do we get a taxi to centre early in the morning, stay in a hotel the night before we start or another caravan park closer. It became very difficult as the Finke Race is on starting 5th June so Alice is totally booked out. No cabins, hotel rooms, caravan parksites. We were lucky we managed this one.

We have lucked in, our transfer guy has said he will pick us up from outside our caravan park on Friday morning 7.45am. That has made it a lot easier for us.

I spent the morning packaging my breakfast for our 17 day hike. That’s 17 packs of cereal, sultanas, almonds and powdered milk. Weighing each ingredient to ensure the weight stays down, Very time consuming. Then we went into Alice to organise the key for food drop lockers, bought some more freeze dried food and groceries. It is really hard to make sure you have everything you need to pack your daily food needs. It is list after list after list.

We ran out of time to go to Bunnings and Desert Dwellers so that is now on tomorrows list of things to do. We managed to do the groceries quite late and hen had a lovely dinner at a sushi train.