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…