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| waiting for sunset, any excuse will do |
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| sunrise |
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| the olgas |
Sat Oct. 22nd. Left Coober Pedy and heading north. Drove all day stopped at Marla on the way and reached Kulgera which is the first port of call in the NT. Nice place considering it's in the middle of nowhere. Only $20 per night for power and water which is unusal for up here. Would you believe it rained overnight and we had a storm. The rain seems to follow us. Kulgera onto Ayer's Rock arriving here in the afternoon with suspected storm's but a nice 32 degrees and a swimming pool. We are staying in the Yulara Resort which is really the only place to stay. You need power to run the air conditioner as the van gets warm but i'm not complaining. Went to the cultural centre first which they reccommend and then onto the Olga's. Walked 7.4kms full circuit to the Valley of the Winds and then onto a 2.6kms walk into Walpa Gorge after that effort returned home to have a swim only to find it had been taken over by a mob of screaming 15 yr old girls from an exclusive school in Melbourne. Heading out to the rock with a glass of wine to watch the sunset but not sure on our chances as it has been very cloudy in the afternoon's and stormy. No not much success will try again tonight if no go get up early to see the sunrise. Today headed out early to meet up with a park ranger who does a commentry and walk at Ayers Rock. The rock is the world's largest monolith and rears 348m above the Mulga Plains and it's made up of sandstone. We had been reccommended to do that by a couple we met last night. Well worth it and then we left that and did the 9.4kms around the base of the rock.Not much success at evening sunset at rock so got up early to see it rise for 6.05am with all the other tourists i've never seen so many coaches!!! Headed on to Kings Canyon in the morning as we were up early.
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