What an absolutely amazing day! Every one of us was gob smacked by the scenery that we saw today. We woke to the unfortunate news that our booking at the Bungle Bungle caravan park had been cancelled as they are not opening for the dry season due to problems negotiating non-pastoral lease arrangements with the traditional landowners. In addition to staying there, we had planned to store our vans while spending a few nights in Purnilulu National Park. A big…
3 weeks today since we hit the road, and we have seen and done so much! Only 15 weeks to go 🙂 This morning Bob and I got up early and made the half an hour trip to the sunrise viewing location for Uluru – we had been lazy the last couple of mornings when both of our travelling couples have made the trip while we stayed warm inside. It was so worth the frozen fingers! We were back to…
Last night we all went to the Field of Lights display. Once again we watched the sun set over Uluru while sipping on wine and enjoying canapés. It’s going to be tough to leave this lifestyle! We were treated to a colourful sunset with some wispy clouds providing an alternate sunset view than we had over the last few days. Once the sun had set we headed down to the field where thousands of lights had been arranged. I really…
Last night was the Sounds of Silence dinner for some of us. To be perfectly honest, Bob was completely against paying for the whole thing when we booked as ‘it’s just a way of separating tourists from their money’. Well, even he will admit it was a completely fabulous evening. We decided formal evening this week was now…we were ever so slightly overdressed compared to the other patrons. The evening started with drinks and canapés overlooking Uluru and Kata Tjuta…
Another sunny and cloudless sky in the centre. Karen and Kieran decided to ride the extra 20km each way to Uluru where we had arranged to ride around the base. Karen grabbed this shot which I really love – interesting trees here which only appeared during our drive in yesterday. The ride around the rock was amazing. So much texture – gorges, gullies, rust (literally) on the surface. Every side of Uluru has an interesting story dating back to the…
Today was a day we will all remember! Of the six of us, only one has ever been to Uluru – and that was me on a family flying holiday back in 1985. Thanks to our long travel day yesterday, we had a much reduced time spent in the car today. Only one stop along the way at the Mt Connor lookout and nearby salt lake. We arrived at the Yulara campground before lunch and set up. As is becoming…
We were out of the caravan park nice and early this morning. We all met at the welcome sign to town to retake the photo as a three-ship, as Jase and Sue have joined us since we arrived. The drive out of town was interesting with the landscape littered with Mullock heaps from the Opal mining. That was probably the most interesting part of our almost 500km of travel today… We crossed the border into the Northen Territory just after…
It was a lovely sunrise this morning. Bob and I drove up to the 360 degree lookout but missed the best of it. We saw Karen riding her bike away when we arrived – she was there for the colour. We all went on a tour of the Old Timer Mine which was a active opal mine in the early 1900’s. It also included an old dugout house which has been interconnected with the mine which was occupied until the…
We started today back at the William Creek Hotel where we paid our ‘fine’ to the RFDS and signed the wall/ceiling. Karen and Kieran found their friend’s business card and decided to sign next to it… Next event was our flight over Lake Eyre North. Great commentary and such interesting info on how the floods affect the surface of the lake. Interestingly all water from the lake is lost through evaporation – none soaks in to the ground. Photos don’t…
Today was a massive day! We only travelled 250km, but it was all on gravel of varying quality and there was so much to see! We started by heading back to Marree and topped up fuel and water supplies. Along the way we discovered that after my maintenance on the car aerial 2 days ago, the tools were left on the bullbar and had proceeded to distribute themselves along the bumpy road after we left. Karen and Kieran announced they’d…