Adelaide

Alice Springs: shopping malls from Anzac Hill

Heavitree Gap from Anzac Hill

Towards E

Towards W

Start of the trip

Start of walk

Reacing Telegraph Station

Larapinta Track -- first stage

Simpsons Gap

Simpsons Gap

Scenery at Standley Chasm

A scary descent

First camp site, near 8-mile gap

Ben, our guide

Day 2: Plain and mountain range

Day 2: Shady rest stop

Ellery Creek Big Hole -- heron

Ellery Creek

Day 2: Second camp site

Day 3: View from ridge over plain and Chalet Range

It was a warm, breezy, hazy day

Our ridge and adjacent valley; hazy distance

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Rest stop on the way

Fossil waves, ca 800 million years ago

Fossil wave ripples (ca 800 million years old)

View from Counts Point along valley in Heavitree Range

Our camp site is somewhere down there, and it's 32C+

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Preparing lunch on the trail

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Ochre pits

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Day 3 -- Another waterhole!

First view of Mount Sonder

Another stop

Day 5: Peter at Hilltop Lookout

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Need to catch any shade that's going

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