Larapinta Trail - Day 13 - Mount Giles Lookout to Ormiston Gorge
I’d had a great night on top of this lookout - there was no wind, I slept well and awoke the next morning excited to shoot and raring to hike!
Larapinta Trail - Day 6 - Brinkley Bluff to Birthday Waterhole
This was another one of my favourite days! Watching the sunrise from the top of a mountain is always a great motivational way to start the day! Looking back now, I am so grateful to have been able to do this hike and experience this beautiful country.
Larapinta Trail - Day 1 - Telegraph Station to Wallaby Gap
It’s so hard to know where to start talking about such an amazing experience!
Hopefully you’ve seen the Introduction and Itinerary posts which give a bit of a general overview of my experience.
On day 1 I hiked Alice Springs Telegraph Station to Wallaby Gap which totaled 13.7km.
Day 1 was a strange day for me, in that it did not reflect my experience of the trail very well at all!
Larapinta Trail - Introduction - A photographer's hike!
Last year, April 2020, I had planned to hike the Larapinta Trail when COVID-19 hit Australia and the whole country went in to lockdown. I had already left Darwin for Alice Springs, and was in Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park when the chaos fully hit. I was a few days out from my hike start date and was told the trail (and all national parks in Australia), were closed. People were being told to go home and stay home. So, I left Uluru and drove straight home to Darwin in one day. (That’s a long drive! I left Uluru at 5am and ended up arriving home at 1am).
Anyway, long story short, I managed to make the hike happen the following year. My new start date was March 25th 2021. And I am SO glad I was