Today we left Watarrka National Park and travelled to Finke River Campground on the Stuart Hwy, 130 K’s south of Alice Springs. We decided to take Ernest Giles Road which would take about 200 K’s of the trip but it did involve 100 K’s of travel off the bitumen. We were assured by the locals at Kings Canyon the road was good but we still prepared by lowering tyre pressures all round and taping up our doors and other areas to protect from the red dust.

We’ll the road was good, in places. It could have been much worse but nevertheless it was pretty tough, considering our van is a tourer and not really suited to this type of travel over a long period. We had a bit of dust in the van and a cupboard door fell off, additionally I lost one of the “Be Brave on Tour“ mudflaps off the back of the van, very disappointing. Thankfully we got to our overnight stay safely and hoping to get a good sunset, whilst it wasn’t too bad, we were hoping for better.