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On Sunday we ate pancakes for breakfast at the caravan park. There was a bouncy pillow and a flying fox. There was a swimming pool but it was too cold to go swimming.<\/p>\n
We went to Simpson’s Gap. There were little patches of water here and there but the rest of the river bed was dry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n This is a black footed rock wallaby. It was up on a rocky slope.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Che clung to a tree like a koala in the dry river bed. You can see Simpson’s Gap behind him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matt sat on a tree like it was a swing. The first time he fell off but the second time he managed to get onto the branch swing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then we went to Stanley Chasm. We played ‘I Spy’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Monday we drove to Palm Valley along a river bed. Dad drove through water. We stopped here because we couldn’t get the car over a rocky steep bit of the track.<\/p>\n This picture is Matt and Che standing on a big rock near some cycads. Some of the cycads had been around for 200 to 300 hundred years, which means they have been alive since before Captain James Cook arrived in Australia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We walked into Palm Valley. Red-Cabbage Palms grow in the valley. They are the only naturally occurring palm trees in Central Australia. The highest one was around 26 metres tall.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We walked up to the top of the cliffs. This is what we saw from there.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n