We had a long day's drive from Alice Springs to Tennant Creek, not helped by the fact we didn't get away until 9:30 as we needed a minor repair done on the van (we won't be undoing that screw again to see what it does, will we Wendy). Apart from the Devil's Marbles (Karlu Karlu) about 100 km South of Tennant Creek there isn't a lot in between, the 'towns' marked on the map are really just road houses, although just North of Alice Springs we went past the marker indicating the Tropic of Capricorn, so we are now officially in the tropics.
Tennant Creek doesn't have a very good reputation, and we had been told by several travellers that they wouldn't stop here, but we haven't found any problems. We went on a 
very interesting 'mine' tour (in reality it was never a 
working mine, but was used for training miners) with working demonstrations of actual mine equipment such as diamond drills. We also went out to the old telegraph station buildings (the Stuart Highway runs along the original telegraph line built across the continent in the early 1870's, and all the towns and settlements along the highway started life as telegraph repeater stations) and up a couple of lookouts. Not heart stopping thrills, but enough to keep us pleasantly occupied for a couple of days.
very interesting 'mine' tour (in reality it was never a 
working mine, but was used for training miners) with working demonstrations of actual mine equipment such as diamond drills. We also went out to the old telegraph station buildings (the Stuart Highway runs along the original telegraph line built across the continent in the early 1870's, and all the towns and settlements along the highway started life as telegraph repeater stations) and up a couple of lookouts. Not heart stopping thrills, but enough to keep us pleasantly occupied for a couple of days.
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