Spent the day sightseeing in Alice Springs. The weather was clear and HOT. We had to do a little shopping, but once we got that out of the way we started exploring. Alice Springs is bigger than I had thought. We drove up to the top of ANZAC Hill which is pretty much in the center of the city and has a magnificent view of the city and its surrounding area. ANZAC ( Australia and New Zealand Army Corp) Hill named in honor of those lost in WWI, WWII, Korea, Borneo, Maylasia and Vietnam . It looks like a huge pile of red rocks in the middle of the city, with a memorial on top. At the very base of ANZAC Hill is “downtown”. Through Alice Springs flows (sometimes) the Ross River. While it is usually dry, water is found near the surface and provides the water for the city.

We visited the Old Telegraph Station Museum which was one of the first white settlements in central Australia. The telegraph station at Alice Springs was one of 11 (I think that’s right) telegraph relay stations and was the catalyst for the settlement which followed. The Overland Telegraph (OT) line connecting Adelaide to Darwin was one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century. At Darwin, the OT was connected to an undersea cable to India, linking Australia to the rest of the world electronically. Darwin was chosen as the point of the connection because it was the shortest sea route and overland lines were much less expensive to build than undersea cables. The museum is fascinating and one of the caretakers there, who played a role in the station’s history, entertained us for a long while with wonderful stories about its early history.

Afterwards, we went back downtown to pick up some beer for the evening only to find out the liquor store (wine and beer are not sold in grocery stores here in NT) was closed on Sundays. So we went over to the Bojangles Saloon that we had heard so much about. The Bojangles Saloon is truly a kick. It has to be one of the greatest museums of 19th and 20th century junk I have ever seen. There are relics of old automobile parts, railroad equipment, farm equipment, tools, hardware, stuffed animal carcasses (including a stuffed 17 ft crocodile from Darwin), Ned Kelly memorabilia, posters and you-name-it, it was all there. A truly fantastic and amusing collection of junk. The place has live music and apparently on Saturday nights it truly rocks. It was a lot of fun strolling through the joint as we nursed our drinks; and anyone coming to Alice Springs is advised to take time to visit the saloon.

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It’s been another full day. We have yet to shower and do the laundry. As usual, we’ll read for a while, then tuck in for the night. Tomorrow, we head east toward the coast. That will probably be three or four days of hard driving as there is not much between here and there. So, until tomorrow,

Cheers,
Wayne & Peggy