Well, I know it has been a while since our last post, but nothing exciting has happened until the last couple of weeks.

I quit my job at the pizza place, I worked there for about 10 weeks, but it was time to move on.

We spent 10 glorious days in Bali, Indonesia. Trev's mom and her friend were doing a tour of Asia, so we met them in Bali. It was an incredible experience, nothing either Trev or I have done before. We spent a lot of time out in the sun working on our tans, since they faded while in Adelaide. We did a couple of cultural tours with Trev's mom. We went to some Hindu temples and saw the locals worshipping. We saw two different traditional dances - one was the story of the battle between good and evil, the other was their version of Romeo & Juliet. The female dancers wiggle their fingers and move their eyes back and forth, it's almost creepy. One night for dinner, we watched a dance and then they made us dance as well, Cheryl's (Trev's mom) boyfriend was a great dancer!

On one of the tours we got to see their largest mountain, Mt. Batur. We also got to do a bit of shopping on the tours. I got two really nice rings, they are hand made, we got to watch the girls at work. We also got to see some stone carving, wood carving and Batik art.

When Cheryl and Bob left, we still had a couple of days on our own. We spent most of our time relaxing by the pool or in town shopping. The Balinese people are very friendly, but also very pushy! We couldn't even watch the sunset on the beach without being bombarded by peddlars trying to sell us something - and they sold everything!

When we got back from Bali, we started to get things together to start travelling again. We got all pakced up and in the van and ready to go and the van wouldn't start. Just our Luck! The battery ended up being totally dead and the alternator was shot as well. So $300 later we were finally ready to go. We didn't end up leaving Adelaide until Sat morning. We decided to skip the West coast and head straight up the centre, before it gets too hot in the desert.

We drove about 500km to the Flinders Ranges. We didn't know what to expect, but what we saw was spectacular. We stayed in the area of Wilpena Pound, which is totally surrounded by mountain ranges. We did a few walks around the pound, one walk was over 21km and took us about 7hours. There was an older man who wanted to do the walk as well, but his wife wouldn't go with him, but also didn't want him to go by himself, so we invited him to come along with us. Dave, was his name, was a really nice guy. He is from Tasmania, he was an abundance of information on the different plant and animal life we saw, so we got to learn a bit as we walked.

We spent four days at Wilpena Pound and then moved on to Mt. Remarkable. We did another walk there through the Alligator Gorge - no alligators present - phew! It was a beautiful walk through the gorge, the walls of the gorge just towered over us.

The next few days weren't too exciting. We were headed to Coober Pedy - the Opal Mining capital of the world. We stopped one night on the side of the road, and there were a few other people there. We met one group that was travelling in a converted bus - complete with toilet and shower - and they called it camping! They were really nice. They fed us a BBQ dinner and some drinks around the fire afterwards - super nice people!

In Coober Pedy we did the usual touristy things. Because of the heat in the desert there, most of the locals build there homes underground. We did a tour of an old opal mine and there was also an underground house that we got to view. We went to this old guys house - known as Crocodile Harry's. He dug his house out of the ground and the walls and floors are completely covered in art and messages from travellers who have visited his place. The walls were so full, we only got to sign the guestbook.

On our way out of Coober Pedy we took a detour to see The Breakaways. They are a small range offering a spectacular view of the vast desert. We could see so far, and that's what we had to drive through for the next couple of days. The desert isn't quite what I imagined though, it's not just a bunch of sand forever, there's actually some small trees and bushes - though it is dusty! I guess they had some rain recently too, because the wild flowers are out in full bloom. It's really beautiful to see the field of flowers as we drive (or walk) around.

Our next destination was the 'Centre'. Ayers Rock/Uluru, the Australian icon - the big rock in the middle of the country in the middle of the desert. We spent 2 days there. The first day we visited the cultural centre and learned about the Aboriginal culture of the rock. We also ate some local bush tucker - honey ants and funny enough they taste like honey. Then we climbed the rock. It is so steep at the start that there are poles and a chain to hold on to as you go up and down. Once at the top, we continued along the rock for about 1.5km to the centre of it. The view was amazing. The way down was much easier than the climb up. However, it's about 5 days later and Trev's legs are still sore.

Some facts about Uluru - it is about 800km above sea level, 300km about the ground and 9.4 in circumfrance - it's one helluva rock!

That evening we watched the amazing colour display on the rock as the sun set. The rock turns an incredible shade of red before the shadows take over. We got up bright and early to watch the sunrise the next morning. The colour show was the same idea, but still spectacular.

In the morning we did the base walk around Uluru, the 9.4km walk. Then we went down the road to see the less popular Olgas/Kata-Tjuta. They are a bunch of clumps of rocks all together. Pretty cool. We did a couple of short walks there, then watched the sunset around them. It really is amazing how the rocks change colour.

Our next stop was King's Canyon. Also less popular, but I think most amazing. We did the 6km Rim walk around the top of the Canyon. It was just so incredible. The view into the gorge was just full of wild and indigenous plants. There was one part called the Garden of Eden, and aptly named. We walked through the plush plant life to a small waterhole.

We are now in Alice Springs, the main town in the Centre of Australia. We will be here for another couple of days, then we are off towards the nothern part of the country - Darwin.

Hope this satisfies your curiosity. We have been getting messages that people want to know what is going on. We have some pictures of Bali up on the website, but I don't know when we will be able to get more Australia pictures up.

Hope everyone is doing well. We miss you all - but not enough to come home any time soon :)