We stopped in Erldunda to make some brekky, Freya and Seth had yoghurt with grapes and muesli, I had yoghurt with left over curry and grapes... It was actually quite yum!
We got to Alice at about 11am. We drove around a bit then parked the car and wandered around to find a particular cafe we were recommended.. It's called Page 27, down a little lane way off a mall street. It's cool, we weren't expecting anything like that. The food was nice, we had a second breakfast/lunch. Seth had bacon and eggs, I got bacon and avo on toast.
It was yummy, but I am a toast snob and I hate getting non sourdough at a cafe!!
The coffee was good, and yummy fresh juice.
Then we went to the movies and saw Wolf Of Wall Street, which we all loved!!!!! It might have been a combination of that we'd been driving for 5 days, the hot, hot weather etc but I just absolutely loved the movie! So funny.
After that we went to this organic shop called the Afghan Trader to have a look. It's really good! It's so weird seeing all this produce that we get in our local organic shops, that are from Victoria.. Like Meredith goats cheese, Demeter BD milk, Mock apple cider vinegar, Quintessence soaps and much more... So much traveling! Seth talked to one of the ladies working there and she said all the dry goods come up from Adelaide, but they don't go straight there, the trucks go to Darwin first, then stop in Alice to deliver on the way back!! Seems so ridiculous. The fresh produce goes to Alice first though.
The shop was so well stocked, but the lady said we came on a good day.. She said sometimes whole orders of things like chocolate will just melt on the way up so they can't sell them.
They had all the good beauty products, cleaning, dry goods, bulk goods, books, seeds, everything!
They had local Alice Springs dates!! They were just like Californian Medjool dates, but a bit smaller and lighter in colour. They were delicious, so caramel-y. Wouldn't it be great if we could get them in Melbourne! Certainly less food miles than from the states!!
The veg was pretty expensive, except for a couple of things.. They had local organic tomatoes for $4kg!! And they were delicious. They also had big buckets of local green grapes for $5 a bucket!!!!!!
We got some treats, then went to Dad's cousin Emma's house, she has just moved to Alice Springs for work.
I was a bit nervous as I didn't remember her but it was so nice!!!! And so lovely of her to put us up for the night, and shout us dinner! We hung out at her house for a bit, then she took us to this absolutely delicious restaurant called Hunamans, they have a sister restaurant in Darwin, and she used to live there so she knew the menu well, so she chose some dishes and we shared them all. I love being ordered for! It means I try things I don't normally order, and I'm always pleasantly surprised! We had oysters to start, then a duck red curry, Malay Kofta curry, and a barramundi curry with roti and coconut rice, and yummy wine. It was soo so good!!!!! So yummy. One of the best Asian dinners I've had. For dessert we had black rice brûlée and banana spring rolls. Yum!
It was so fun, so nice getting to know a family member we haven't spent much time with. It's so good staying with someone who knows the area, otherwise we probably would have just camped in a camp ground and not been out much, but we walked along the dry riverbed to dinner in the setting sun which was so beautiful.
In the morning we went back to Page 27 for coffee and breakfast with Emma before she went to work.
I really liked Alice Springs, it was totally different to what I imagined.
We stopped in some strange towns that day.. We stopped at one general store that looked like it was from a movie or something... There were locals sitting around outside and all the walls inside were covered in photos and writing and there were flies everywhere and a bain marie with fried food that looked as though it had been there for days! I asked the man behind the bar "if i could please use the bathroom" and he just laughed at me "bathroom!!" and said i could use the dunny.
In the towns we stopped in we asked about Tennant Creek, where was a good place to camp and all of that.. Most people said that Tennant Creek has a bad reputation and that it was pay day from centreline that day so the locals usually get pretty rowdy.. So we should be very careful, that we should stay in a fenced in camp ground and not just anywhere. This kind of freaked us out a bit, but when we got there we found a good camp ground with a pool and everyone was really nice.
We went to the Devil's Marble's for lunch, we had saladas with cucumber, hummus, brie and dolmades.
We had a little walk around the big rocks, they were so amazing. The formations were so beautiful.
Just before Tennant Creek we stopped in a little spot under a bridge that a man at one of the petrol stations had told us about, where there was a creek to swim in. It was the first time in 2 years the creek had water in it. It wash't very deep but it was nice to have a cool off. There were hundreds of tadpoles in the water! It was so cool, when we were laying in the water, if we laid still the tadpoles would come up and nibble at us! It felt like how those fish must feel, the ones that eat your dead skin! It was so tickley and funny. There were so many that if you slowly approached them in the shallows you could catch one in your hands.
When we got to the camp ground we had a nice dip in the pool then cooked up some sausages on the barbie for dinner with onions, salad and bread for dinner. Yum! Then more swimming, then bed.
x Zannah
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