To Alice via Ellery Creek Big Hole

After four nights in the same site we were running short on food, water, clean clothes and nearing P's limit of continuous days camping.  On the way to Alice Springs we spent most of the day at another large waterhole, Ellery Creek Big Hole.  The largest we had seen, this swimming hole stretched 150m through the range.

We got through our books while the the boys evolved their sand games from Smurf Villages at Redbank Gorge to sand castle hunting at Ormiston and building swimming pools at Ellery.  

Will won the stone skipping competition with 10 hops and managed to narrowly miss every other swimmer during subsequent attempts to better the record.

After sunset we had a lucky entry into a serviced apartment in Alice, catching the receptionist at the front gate as she left for the day.  Following 4 nights in a tent we were all a little overwhelmed, Penne happy the washing machine meant we didn't have to sit in an Alice Springs laundromat for an hour, the boys rushing off to find the pool and games room.  Even the little one noted repeatedly "this place has everything".