We went for a picnic drive

There's a popular tourist song here in Central Australia, it goes like this -

"Give me a home amoung the gum trees, with lots of plum trees
A midget or two and a kangaroo..."

Whups. Sorry - a friend sort of corrupted the song and now I can never remember the real words. I'm pretty sure it's not a midget, it's a sheep, but.... never mind. Carrying on -

"A sheep or two and a kangaroo, clothesline out the back, verandah out the front and an old - rocking - chair!"

Ther are gestures that go with every line, and you're supposed to make these semi-obscene hip-thrust motions when you do the rocking chair bit. Anyways, in case you wondered what a gum tree was, the leaves in the top of the frist picture are gum leaves. It's a river gum - there are loads of varieties of gum tree. River Gum, Blue Gum, Ghost Gum, all sorts. All very pretty. Someone joked that this place really is upside down: gum trees shed their bark but keep their leaves, swans are black instead of white, the seasons are reversed and the local boat races are canceled when the rivers have water in them.

Right - on to the pictures. We went for a picnic drive along the ridge that runs through town, stopping at some of the gaps in the ridge to take pictures.




And some pretty rocks and trees:




And a nice slice of rocks.