Friday 1 October 2010

Uluru and Kings Canyon

"1027 Green Bottles hanging on the wall ....."    by this time Geoff was shouting at me to shut up!!  (And maybe not quite so politely!!)  But it was a very long drive from Coober Pedy to Uluru (2 days worth in fact!) a total of 800+ kms - and my book was rubbish and the battery went flat on the ipod so no Bookworm to play either! 


Uluru (Ayers Rock) was totally amazing - a lot of people had said "why bother going there?? Its a big rock and that's it!"  But we found it absolutely fantastic - very quiet, respectful and almost a spiritual feeling to the whole place.  A lot of people climbed the rock but the Aboriginals ask that tourists don't - so we stood and had out pics done and came off!  That's our excuse for not climbing to the top and we're sticking to it! 

We watched the sun setting on Uluru - along with a few hundred others - it was lovely to watch the changing colours (known as the changing moods of Uluru).  Again - very peaceful - and I felt God's presence when I saw the cross in the rock - see if you can spot it!  It was almost as though God was saying "I'm here too - despite the 'dreams' of the aboriginals with regard to Uluru - I'm in it!"



The following day we travelled a further 320 kms (and another 250 green bottles!) to Kings Canyon - with petrol at it's most expensive at AUS $1.91 per litre!  One thing we've learned is that you don't appreciate the vastness of Australia until you drive it!  There's an awful lot of "nothingness" inbetween places that look about 2 inches on the map!!!  It sounds like a short trip from Ayer's Rock to King's Canyon - but believe you me - it's a long way!  It was a scorching hot day but we decided we would do the top route of the Canynon - a 3 1/2 hour climb/walk.  BUT we realised a little way up that I didn't have any sugar sweets with me and I really didn't want to have a hypo at the top of the Canyon - so unfortunately (yes really!!) we had to come back down and do the easier route. 


They say a picture paints a thousand words - so the following pictures can tell you all about it - another of Australia's wonders which we feel privileged to have seen.





1 comment:

  1. Wow it's lovely - the canyon reminds me of New Zealand a bit. You must have so many pictures by now. Keep them coming - then we all feel we're having a bit of a year out! xx

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