We are now pretty well settled in Alice Springs. Chris is working, we are schooling and on the weekends we get out and about to discover the sights in and around Alice.One afternoon we packed all the kids up and heading off for a bike ride around to Heavitree Gap to feed the Rock Wallabies. Every afternoon the wallabies come down off the ranges and you can hand feed them - so we all jumped on our pushies and headed off down the ro
ad to see them. As you could imagine it is bedlam trying to control the three boys, Jack and Logan and Jack Curry, who just want to race each other all the time and Lexie who is too busy daydreaming to look where she is going. But Luckily with three adults also riding we can split them up and try to keep them all under control.
ad to see them. As you could imagine it is bedlam trying to control the three boys, Jack and Logan and Jack Curry, who just want to race each other all the time and Lexie who is too busy daydreaming to look where she is going. But Luckily with three adults also riding we can split them up and try to keep them all under control.We make it to the range and the kids have a ball feeding the wallabies - we even saw a mother with a young joey in her pouch come down to drink and feed. We stayed for quite a while feeding and patting the wallabies and then headed off for the bike ride home again.
Bikes are really popular in Alice Springs - there are great bike paths all the way around the town and lots of people ride bikes -although it doesn't seem compulsory to wear helmets here, we never seem to see anyone else wearing them! The only problem we have found with the bikes are there are lots of thorns and glass around, so you really need thorn-proof tubes, which the kids didn't have. So after replacing the standard tubes a couple of times - we went and bought the thorn proof tubes and Chris and the kids replaced them on the bikes.
There were lots of things to do around town that we could ride our bikes to - Chris, Anthony and the boys have also had a few trips down to the local skate park on their bikes - they have a ball riding in and out of the pipes and even try to convince the Dad's to have a go. We also rode into town to check out the quad bikes on di
splay - Logan was in heaven!! They were all his favourite!! Some of them were pretty cool - even Lexie found one she liked.Alice Springs has just about every sport you could want - I suppose it has to seeing as there are no other towns around for 500km's. There is basketball, baseball, golf, boxing, hockey, netball, swimming, tennis and a velodrome - just to name a few! The sport they have that really grabbed our interest, was the BMX racing. Chris has been driving past the track every day for work and had taken the boy past for a look - who were very keen to go and watch a race. We found out that the track was closed due to school holidays but would be open soon and they race on Friday nights. The boys were super keen to see a race - so hopefully over the next few weeks we might get down to see one - keep following the blog to find out what happens
Staying at the back of the pub had been pretty good up until now....however....over the last week or so we had a few little incidences happen that has really had us looking around for somewhere else to stay.
Beside us were two german brothers who had been travelling around Australia - we had chatted to them and gotten to know them a little since they had arrived. One morning we woke up and they found that two of their tyres on their car had been slashed during the night - A BIT SCARY!!! Then a few nights later - Chris was heading off to work in the morning and commented how the handles on the tool boxes on the back of the truck were all open, they weren't like that when we went to bed - someone had been trying to get into them!!! Luckily the boxes were all locked and nothing was taken....however.....I then found out that they Curry's had had a visitor during the night as well - the lock on their bikes had been cut!!!!
We had all decided then that it was time to move on to another campsite - especially when that night we heard movement outside the van again. None of us were sleeping, we were all stressed and tired - definitely time to move on!!
So goodbye Gap View Hotel and hello G'Day Mate Tourist Park.........
