... were fantastic! Don't have much time to write but I'll do my best.
Flew into Alice Springs. Turns out the Masters Games is being held there for the next 2 weeks - massive competition for lots of sports with teams from all over Oz. All participants must be over 35. This turned out to be really brilliant for us, because although the rooms were twice the price they normally would be, all the sites were more or less empty because there was no space in the town for tourists.
First day - up at 5am to be picked up and taken to Uluru. We were in a group of 10 (inc. guide) - 2 Swiss, 2 Germans, 1 Finn, 1 Korean, 2 Oz and us. GOt to Uluru and did the base walk - 9.4km in horriic heat. ULuru is hugely impressive and we managed to find a Thorny Devil along the way which kept me happy taking pics. Back to camp and we slept under the stars in swags. I was woken up sometime in the night by howling Dingos which was pretty eerie under a full moon =)
The next day we did a walk through Kata-Tjuta called the Valley of the Winds. Completely different landscapes (even though both places are big, red rocks) as this is made of granite, not sandstone. Also gorgeous. After the walk we drove about 300km to King's Canyon and camped in King's Creek cattle station. This one ranch is bigger than Belgium. Lots of cows. We cooked a Kangaroo tail in the fire and ate it, tasted like brisket. Lots of aboriginal tales around the fire and then bed.
Third day was a rim walk of King's Canyon. We both agree that this was the best part of the trip. I don't have time right now to describe it so I won't even try (Google it!). Hopefully I'll get some pics up soon...
Right now we're back in Cairns doing our washing and getting ready for the dive boat tonight - hopefully this trip will double the number of dives I've done! We'll be out of touch until next Thursday.
Katy xx
Flew into Alice Springs. Turns out the Masters Games is being held there for the next 2 weeks - massive competition for lots of sports with teams from all over Oz. All participants must be over 35. This turned out to be really brilliant for us, because although the rooms were twice the price they normally would be, all the sites were more or less empty because there was no space in the town for tourists.
First day - up at 5am to be picked up and taken to Uluru. We were in a group of 10 (inc. guide) - 2 Swiss, 2 Germans, 1 Finn, 1 Korean, 2 Oz and us. GOt to Uluru and did the base walk - 9.4km in horriic heat. ULuru is hugely impressive and we managed to find a Thorny Devil along the way which kept me happy taking pics. Back to camp and we slept under the stars in swags. I was woken up sometime in the night by howling Dingos which was pretty eerie under a full moon =)
The next day we did a walk through Kata-Tjuta called the Valley of the Winds. Completely different landscapes (even though both places are big, red rocks) as this is made of granite, not sandstone. Also gorgeous. After the walk we drove about 300km to King's Canyon and camped in King's Creek cattle station. This one ranch is bigger than Belgium. Lots of cows. We cooked a Kangaroo tail in the fire and ate it, tasted like brisket. Lots of aboriginal tales around the fire and then bed.
Third day was a rim walk of King's Canyon. We both agree that this was the best part of the trip. I don't have time right now to describe it so I won't even try (Google it!). Hopefully I'll get some pics up soon...
Right now we're back in Cairns doing our washing and getting ready for the dive boat tonight - hopefully this trip will double the number of dives I've done! We'll be out of touch until next Thursday.
Katy xx
Edit: Found some more time to write. Forgot to tell you about James eating a Wichetty grub. On the way back to Alice Springs we stopped on the roadside for a loo break and saw a Wichetty tree. I was instructed to dig up the root until I found a swollen part and then snap it off. Lo and behold there was a grub inside, about 4 inches long. After a quick toasting on the fire, James bit the head off (spitting out loads of yellow goo) and then ate it =) Apparently it tasted like watery mashed potato. Unfortunately my pics of this are on my other camera and I can't get them off at the moment, but I've uploaded a few from the bigger camera on Facebook - take a look.
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