Uluru (Ayers Rock)

You will have noticed there was not much activity on my blog, well you’re right and when you read this you will laugh your head of:   we have been in Victoria in the mean time, we had to rush over there because of a special reason which I will tell you later, anyhow let's continue our travels and this is what I wrote on the 7th of November:


We are very exciting, we're driving from Alice towards Uluru (more known as Ayers Rock) and as what we've heard lately that people say you have to be there once. The only thing that worries us is that the forecast is high thirties, even on Thursday 40 degrees. The distance to Uluru to too much for one day with a caravan towing so we will stay at a free camp.
The hard red colours from Alice has been swapped for soft pink soil on the sides of the road and are covered with pale grass and in between many different green coloured scrubs which gives the whole area a nice soft colourful look.

In the mean time it's about 3 weeks ago that we wanted to get rid of the heat and we are still in it. It looks like it's following us. We hope that in South Australia it will be better.

It's a long long way to Uluru but it's never dull , the scenery changes so often that's its beautiful all the way. One part in particular; The red earth is back and forms beautiful dunes with all colours pom-poms on them.

At some stage you have to turn off the Stuart highway into Lassiter highway, 244 k's to Uluru, you also have to go the same way back.

 At this time of the year there are less caravanners like I already told you in a previous story and so the free camp we had chosen was empty and we didn't want to stay by our own though it was a nice place. We went 60 k’s  further to a roadhouse and on our way we saw a mountain of which we thought was Uluru but it seemed to be Mount Ebenezer;

We arrived at the roadhouse and though you could stay for free unpowered we chose for power as again it was bloody hot and the fridges could not cope. Look who visited us....

Fred didn't like it much.....

Next day we drove further and then suddenly you can see it, the great sandstone rock formation; Uluru!

a giant red monster but so beautiful. The Ayers Rock resort is a small town with everything you need, souvenir shops, supermarket, hotels, motels, swimming pool, service station and lots more and of course a caravan park, very big with nearly 180 Powered sites.
A really nice park with in the middle a lookout to see Uluru and the Olga's.

and the beautiful Galahs were present to...

Next day we went to Uluru of course and because it was to become 41 degrees that day, we went up at 5 o'clock to see the sunrise and after that we walked all around it which is 10,5 k's, we had to finish before 11 o'clock because of the heat the track would be closed after that time. 

You could also climb the rock but as it is a sacred site for the aboriginals and they ask you not to climb, we didn't!

I have so much photos from walking around Uluru, I decided to make as extra a film out of it, enjoy:

After the walk we had our "breakfast"  which turned out to be brunch actually, but at a beautiful spot!

Of course we also have been at the Olga's but that's for another time as its too much information at one time.

See ya!