First port of call was the Araluen centre where the famous Beanie Festival was being held. Fab, creative beanies of all shapes and colors and selling like hot cakes. We watched local Aboriginal women learning how to needle felt and looked at all the lovely things for sale.. Hand spun wool too. Once the Aboriginal women learn skills like these the can make goods which bring in an income for them.
Very cold o/n temperatures down to -4 one night and we had the heater on in the van.
We spent time in galleries and saw some of Namitjira's beautiful watercolours. The museum had an excellent audio tour on the beginnings of life on the planet with relevant exhibits and a day at the Desert Park was very interesting. The bird show was great and the nocturnal house had lots of night creatures on exhibition.
As we were leaving the c'van park in Alice we had our first drama!
Ken noticed a bolt hanging loose from his suspension and we found that it had snapped and was just hanging loose. After carefully reversing back onto his site and inspecting the damage a quick trip was made to find parts ( plus extras just to be safe). He and Glenn did the repair and off we went thinking we were so lucky it hadn't come adrift at speed.
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