This tree marks the end of the trail, just at the edge of the parking lot, where a bus waited to whisk us off to the airport. We were off to North Queensland, Cairns, Port Douglas, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree rain forest.
Yes, if you count our night on the Ghan Train, we spent four nights and four days in the desert. Then we flew off to the tropics, to Cairns, Port Douglas, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree.