  Haven't got that much to say about our journey round Australia so far, so will do a quick summary. Leaving Kalbarri we headed on up the coast to Monkey Mia, which is one of many golden sandy beaches on the Australian coast. Still camping, although we can get the tent up in just a matter of minutes now, instead of hours. While there we got the chance to see some dolphins, which swim right up to the beach almost. Back in the car and the next planned stop was to be Coral Bay, however once we got there we couldn't find anywhere to stay as it was school holidays.
So we continued up the coast to Exmouth and managed to get in at a campsite there. While in Exmouth we hired snorkeling gear and went to Turquoise Bay. Was fantastic, there were hundreds of fish swimming about you, and some coral to admire as well. Broome was our next stop and fed up of camping by this point we stayed in a hostel. Not much to report from Broome, except that it is a really nice town and very good for relaxing, especially if you have spent the past week in tents and driving.
Broome to Darwin was a long slog, and can't remember now how long it took us to get there. Anyway while in Darwin we decided to treat ourselves and so booked a didgeridoo making course. Mike, our teacher, picked us up in the morning and took us to the bosses house and the workshop. We then picked out our didgeridoos from a wood pile outside and proceeded to shave them down. Helen and Jo being clever had only picked small pieces and so didn't have much to shave off theirs.
Me on the other hand picked one that weighed 6kg and needed to get it down to 3 or 4 kg. A lot of blisters later and it was finally at 3.5kg. A lot of sanding and treating then took place, followed by lunch and didge playing lessons. Helen found this quite difficult but only because she kept giggling. The finished didgeridoos can be seen at holdenpix.blogspot.com From Darwin we planned to head to Cairns which would have been about a 5 day drive.
After 1 day we decided to go to Alice Springs instead, which took us 2 days from Darwin, although on the last day we did do just over 1000km (600 miles) in the one day. We camped the night in Alice and then the following day went to see Uluru (Ayers Rock), which wasn't as close to Alice as we had thought, it is about 500km away. Camping again at Uluru we set off to the rock a couple of hours before sunset. It is amazing, at first I was thinking I was only going because it was expected of you when going to Australia, and people at home would shout if we didn't go, however as I said it was amazing to see and to watch people trying to climb up and down it. Out of respect for the Aboriginal people we didn't climb all over their sacred sight, and the fact that 35 people have died doing so. We also went to the special sunset viewing point and waited, looking at the rock as the sun set. Think I was expecting some fantastic light show and the rock to change through the colours of the rainbow, instead it just went dark.
Think it would have been much more impressive if it was cloudless. Bit more travel advice for you all now, when driving in Australia be on the look out for wandering livestock, there are stretches of road that have no fences, the result of which is as Helen found out, having to do an emergency stop for a cow, only missing it because at the last second the cow ran out of the way. Think we did clip its tail as we screeched passed, doing a little skid on the road as we went. Other dangers also include camels, again when Helen was driving, this time however she managed to stop the car safely at a couple of meters from the camels, who then refused to move off the road.
Kangaroos are the other things to look out for as evidence that they don't survive many impacts are everywhere, as is the evidence of the cows. Back in Alice Springs we sold the car to Mingo Motors, who gave us $700 for him, although $300 less than we had originally paid for him, it's still not bad seeing as we had cracked the windscreen, the tape player still didn't work, he was quite rusty in places, and the day before fourth gear kept popping out while you were driving. From Alice we boarded a coach bound for Cairns, and 36hours later we arrived. This country has too much space. 
