Day 354 – School of the Air

• Alice Springs – Desert Oaks
• 182kms
• 31°c

On the road to Uluru this morning but the caravan brakes were not working as they should after being adjusted yesterday. Steve called the mechanic who said he would have a look at them but it would be after lunch sometime. Seeing as we were all dressed up and nowhere to go till later, we decided to take a visit to The School of The Air. What a worthwhile trip, the centre is really interesting and the tour allowed us to see how the studios worked to provide real time classes to students in remote locations over the internet and enable them to interact with their teachers.

After visiting the School of the Air we still had time before we had to meet the caravan mechanic, so we headed into Alice to drop off our postal votes and pick up some supplies. Walking into the pharmacy and who's walking towards us but Jennie & Chris! You wouldn't believe it, they are staying on a property about 250kms from here and were just in town for a few hours, talk about coincidence! We had a good catch up and Jennie told Ella & Occy about the best ice cream place in town, so of course that was our next stop and boy was Jen right, I had the most delicious Lime & Pineapple Sorbet, Ella chose Burnt Caramel and Oscar chose Rocher. 

In perfect timing we had just finished our ice creams when the mechanic called to say he could adjust the brakes now, so half an hour later we were all set and heading out of Alice Springs towards Uluru.

Desert Oaks, $0 free camp, toilets, water, shade