Alice Springs

We are  in here for three weeks . Karen is doing a training course. RN to RAN.
I think that stands for Registered Nurse to Remote area Nurse. It is very much full on training. I sometimes meet at the Flying Doctor   coffee shop for lunch or walk down and get a ride home with Karen.
We travelled to Alice Springs in the Ali Kurung maternity 4 wheel drive Toyota. ( Robert and Tuinaa took us to pick it up.) Karen has now been given to use a v8 turbo Toyota ambulance with bull bars on the front  she  is handling the city traffic no trouble.
We went to the Henley on Todd Reggatta on the weekend which was most entertaining. A regatta in the sandy dry riverbed. It was the 50th anniversary of this event.

Ali Curung Blog

Ali Curung Clinic Information Sheet

Ali Curung has a population of approx 980 peopl

Plus Outstation Murray Down 43ks east population 189

Ali Curung is no alcohol and no longer as permits for non Aboriginal workers.

Always ensure you carry a stick in hand when walking around Ali Curung as the dogs have been known to attack when you are carrying food....

There is a picture of a dog on the sign outside the town.This is a dog dreaming place a sacred and a totem of the people here.

While standing outside the clinic waiting to get in when we arrived. I saw a big hairy dog as big as a Scottish staghound the other thing that happened was a hearse pulled up 'Sorry Business. ' some one had died.

The clinc had been very busy that night.

They had 18 transfer flights out of here over the last week. As well as the local community the clinic covers for the the main highway. We are 300km out of Alice Springs here

The settlement here is about 20 km off the highhway.

I walked Karen to work this morning, the health house is not far from the clinic we carried our sticks and saw three packs of assorted dogs. I got home to find a big dog at the door of the house.

He was compliant, tail down, and moved away. ( I have learn't something from cheeky dogs when their tails are up those are the ones who bite.

There were a couple of bones left from last nights tea so I threw them out to it.

He ate them and came and looked in the screen door so I gave him a couple of eggs in some milk. He is now lying outside the door as I write this.

I have been adopted by a dog he looks at home here .

It is a dusty dry barren place here we have a brick house with triple locks on the doors . In the Shire here you lock you gates at night. They have four poicemen here and three vacancies for night patrol I noticed when we signed in to stay in the community at the Shire (council) office. It must be a wild place.

Karen said I'm to stay at home at night. I thought I might be eligible I have a NT drivers licence now.

Another Song.

D G D A

Ali, Ali, Ali Curung

D G D A D

Ali,Ali, Ali Curung

D G

Dingo, dingo

D A D x2

Dog dreaming here.

D G

Staghound, dauchound

D A

everything between

D G

big dog small dog

D A D

Cheeky dog rules

Dog barks dog howls

Chorus begins

Yip bark yip bark

Sort out whose the boss.

Ali Ali Ali Curung

Ali Ali Ali Curung

Dingo, dingo

Dog dreaming here.

Ali Curung

This dog adpoted me at Ali Curung to show me they are not all bad.
Ali Curung information sheet in the house we stayed in last week said...Always carry a stick with you as the dogs have been knownto attack people carrying food
Ali curung has a population of approx 980 people