alice springs update
Greetings from the Red Centre.
This is our fourth day in Alice, and it still feels strangely like another planet.
We hired a car on Tuesday and drove out along the Western McDonnell ranges - Simpson's Gap, Standley Chasm, Ellery Big Hole (gotta love that name), Serpentine Gorge and Glen Helen - alien landscapes of giant red gorges rising out of the desert with icy pools of water at the base. Little oases of ghost gums and prehistoric cycads. We saw a black-footed rock wallaby at a distance, and lots of English tourists at close range.
Yesterday we ran a harmony singing workshop at the Cultural Precinct, a wonderful arts complex just out of town. We met some folks who used to sing with the Adelaide Trade Union Choir - and are trying to work out how to help them get a solid community chopir of some sort happening out here. It's difficult, given the largely transient nature of the population here.
Back at the ranch (the Pioneer YHA), we were winding down with a couple of games of backgammon when we met up with some brave souls from Nowra who are leading a tour of their school concert band. 37 high-school kids for 6 days!!!
They were disappointed that they hadn't been able to squeeze one of our workshops here into their busy schedule, so we're organised to give them a custom-built version at Uluru on Sunday.
The people you meet!
Off to be tourists...
This is our fourth day in Alice, and it still feels strangely like another planet.
We hired a car on Tuesday and drove out along the Western McDonnell ranges - Simpson's Gap, Standley Chasm, Ellery Big Hole (gotta love that name), Serpentine Gorge and Glen Helen - alien landscapes of giant red gorges rising out of the desert with icy pools of water at the base. Little oases of ghost gums and prehistoric cycads. We saw a black-footed rock wallaby at a distance, and lots of English tourists at close range.
Yesterday we ran a harmony singing workshop at the Cultural Precinct, a wonderful arts complex just out of town. We met some folks who used to sing with the Adelaide Trade Union Choir - and are trying to work out how to help them get a solid community chopir of some sort happening out here. It's difficult, given the largely transient nature of the population here.
Back at the ranch (the Pioneer YHA), we were winding down with a couple of games of backgammon when we met up with some brave souls from Nowra who are leading a tour of their school concert band. 37 high-school kids for 6 days!!!
They were disappointed that they hadn't been able to squeeze one of our workshops here into their busy schedule, so we're organised to give them a custom-built version at Uluru on Sunday.
The people you meet!
Off to be tourists...
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