Kings Canyon
A short drive from the resort is the canyon itself. We did two separate walks in the area. the first was a short walk up the dry creek bed to a lookout. The other was the rim walk which took about 4.5 hours to complete.
Me, Kate and Pauline at the lookout. Edna taking pic.
View from the lookout
Me with the 'Garden of Eden' below.
Me being artistic with the camera.
The shear cliffs of the canyon.
They told me to jump. I think I must have been annoying them.
(kate: you? never!)
A birdy.
Me being attacked by the flies.
Edna and Kate trying to pose.
Don't look down!
Ayers Rock (Uluru).
From Kings Canyon its a 3.5 hour drive to reach Yulara, the resort that we stayed at near to Ayers. Ayers is a further 20km beyond the resort.
The resort itself is a big rip off, charging what they like for rooms, food and drinks. If you ever go be prepared to spend big bucks for a decent room.
Pics below.
can you guess what it is yet?
Wrong!
Its Mount Conner. Edna and Pauline made the same mistake
This is the rock at sunset.
This is the rock at with the sun nearly gone.
The rock at sunrise with the moon still out.
Its too early to be up.
People climbing the rock. We didn't do as the full day we were there it was too windy (this picture is from the day we were leaving so we didn't have time). the local aboriginal tribe ask you not to climb it as it is sacred to them.
We could have put more picture of the rock on, but I don't think 60 or so picture of the same thing would be very interesting.
The Olgas
50 km from Ayers are The Olgas (Kata Tjuta, the aboriginal name meaning 'many heads').
Before we got to them we went to a lookout where it became ATTACK OF THE FLIES!!! We love our fake B movies. Once we arrived we went for a small 7.4km walk on a trail called 'The Valley of the Winds'. The walk wasn't too difficult but god was it windy! (Comment by Kate: Jamie felt right at home). Pics below.
View of The Olgas from the lookout.
The flies liked Edna A LOT!
Can you see the face winking at you?
The group at the top of the valley (very windy here, look at Pauline's hair).
More on part 4 soon (I think monkey is going to write something too, if he can be bothered. He's such a lazy git these days).
2 comments:
you go all that way to take a pic of a pigeon, it just happens to be a Spinifex Pigeon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinifex_Pigeon ). You two look like russian revolutionaries with those hats.
hope your having fun, and where do you think you will go next? Where ever the wind blows?
Just having another look at recent pics. Those of the Rock are spectacular especially the one at sunset. I've got a new screensaver-it's the one with the caption 'it's too early to be up'. I'm really enjoying all the photos. Thanks. Take care of yourselves. Love J and the K's xxx
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