After three months on Charlevue Cattle Station it was time to keep on moving again. With our car Shelly we started from Dingo with both a laughing and a crying eye. Our first stop led us away from the highway to Carnavon Nationalpark. It was a detour of at least 250km, but with the car, no problem. The nationalpark is a big forest that leads into a gorge. We arrived at around noon and did a hike to a nice lookout in the afternoon. For the night, we found a beautiful campsite on top of a hill with a 360° view of the mountains around the nationalpark. The next day, we hiked all the way to the end of the gorge and had a look at all the small side-gorges on the way back. There were some magical places between the rocks with water and little spots of rainforest.

That was the only nationalpark on the way to Alice Springs that we visited, so we went back on the highway and made our way past Longreach and Winton. From there we decided to leave the highway and take the direct road, the Plenty/Donohue Highway. Mostly it was a dirt road but not to bad to drive on and there were enough gas stations, even if some of them were only cattle stations that offered fuel. The most we had to pay for our petrol was $2,10 (normally in town it would be around $1,30).

After five days we reached Alice Springs and kept going in direction of Uluru straight away (still around 500km to go). We spend the night close to the nationalpark and drove the last kilometers in the early morning so we could see the sunrise at Uluru. After a walk around it we drove 50km further to the next great rocks, the Kata Tjuta. We found them even more spectacular and you could walk through its gorges. The day ended with the sunset view at Kata Tjuta.