The original Alice Spring, which is actually not a spring at all but a water hole. This is found near the telegraph station of Stuart (renamed Alice Springs after the wife of the station master of the time). This was a great place to start our investigation of the Center, very well laid out and very informative as to the different uses the station had had over it's life time.
We were also lucky to be there when some of the local schools had a 2 day experience at the station. They started this idea in 1988 and each year the local school 5th graders come for a chance to do things the old ways. Here the boys are pumping up the water...
the girls are washing up after cooking biscuits and preparing dinner...Stephen and I got to try the Anzac Biscuits...they were great...
they were sleeping in the old barracks, doing the morse code, washing in an old copper with the fire blazing away below...they even had the old forge going!!!
And to think that this was once the home to the Half Caste's..over 130 at the height of it's existence, makes you wander..well it makes me wander.....
The original Alice Spring, which is actually not a spring at all but a water hole. This is found near the telegraph station of Stuart (renamed Alice Springs after the wife of the station master of the time). This was a great place to start our investigation of the Center, very well laid out and very informative as to the different uses the station had had over it's life time.
We were also lucky to be there when some of the local schools had a 2 day experience at the station. They started this idea in 1988 and each year the local school 5th graders come for a chance to do things the old ways. Here the boys are pumping up the water...
the girls are washing up after cooking biscuits and preparing dinner...Stephen and I got to try the Anzac Biscuits...they were great...
they were sleeping in the old barracks, doing the morse code, washing in an old copper with the fire blazing away below...they even had the old forge going!!! 
And to think that this was once the home to the Half Caste's..over 130 at the height of it's existence, makes you wander..well it makes me wander.....
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