Our first stop was the Rainbow Serpents's eggs aka the Devils Marbles. Quite something...
Then it was the long straight Stuart Highway. We are now truly in the red centre - the land of wide horizons. But even so changing all the time. More tunes to push us along. It was a great drive.
We made it into Alice at about 12:30 and set up in the G'day Mate caravan park in plenty of time for the footy match. We are now seated in the stands at the oval - strange to be the minority group in a sea of black faces.
We arrived half way through the 1st division grand final - 2 aboriginal teams - and the crowd is predominantly indigenous. This is the end of the game when the fans poured onto the ground....
And this is the winning team.....
This is the beginning of the premier league grand final - many more white players compared with the previous game. And the crowd demographic has noticeably changed - many more whites and less indigenous.
On Monday we visited the Desert Park (see separate post), voted (because we are heading west tomorrow and don't know where we'll be on Saturday) and went up to the Anzac Hill lookout for the sunset. Anzac Hill is a place of cultural significance for the aboriginals, but all you see there is a monument to white men's wars, the Australian flag and the NT flag. We still have not got it right!
There was cloud cover so the sunset was muted, but still a very pretty spot with 360 degree views of the Alice nestled in the Macdonnell Ranges....
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