Next morning (Thursday) we woke up to the sun rising over a desert landscape - a beautiful red sun. The change of landscape between Katherine and the approach to Alice Springs was amazing.
In Alice we chose to take the shuttle bus into town instead of taking any of the "whistle-stop" tours.
The collection in this photo is some of the things I bought - mainly fabrics with aboriginal designs from a fabric shop just off Todd Mall. The rhythm sticks were from a gallery. I rather like the idea of using the designs on the rhythm sticks as the basis of a strippy applique quilt. (Another future project).
I also bought a book about the art of Dorothy Napangardi - "Dancing Up Country". I couldn't afford any of her original works, so this was a good compromise.
(Did I tell you that on the way back from Litchfield National Park we stopped at the "Didg Hut", and there I bought a very small piece of aboriginal art and a book on the subject. I'll have to take a photo and post it separately).
Still in the same gallery I bought some postcards of aboriginal art to go with the ones I'd bought in January at the National Gallery. I think the aboriginal art appeals to me for its very graphic quality - any of these pieces could so easily be loosely interpreted as a quilt.
(Also in this display on my cubicle wall at work is a Degas sketch, a close up photo of a caterpillar on a grevillea flower, and one of my textile postcards).
Back on the train, we were again greeted with a lovely glass of iced tea, and then lunch. We spent the afternoon watching the changing landscape through our picture window before another delicious 3-course meal and good wine.
Overnight the train seemed to stop several times, sometimes for several hours. (Later I confirmed this when I found a detailed schedule for the train. It stops to allow the long goods trains heading north to pass it).
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