ALICE SPRINGS to MT DARE HOTEL to DALHOUSIE SPRINGS
Hi again As we had not planned to do the Simpson Desert crossing we had to stock up on the food and camping gear in Alice. Once this was done, we headed off on a fine central Australian winters day, passing the Alice Springs Airport and onto the community of Santa Teresa. We were following the Binns Track (the highlighted track to the right or east of the map below). The community of Santa Teresa is nestled in beside some rugged hills - see photo below. We had never previously visited Santa Teresa however I recalled one sad story related to this community. One of the Garngi rangers who I worked with while at Croker Island is a descendant of a 'stolen generation' person. Her grandfather and sister came from Santa Teresa however as their father was non-indigenous this meant that they were of mixed descent. The government policy in the 1940s and 50s dictated that indigenous children of mixed descent had to be taken from their parents - usually an indigenous mother (...