Early mornings and getting the hump!

Wednesday 27th July. We were up this morning shortly after 5.00am ready for a pick up 6.15am and a drive to Uluru to watch the sun rise. Beautiful blue skies but absolutely freezing! The sunrise was beautiful although I think we all agreed the sunset had been better. That said, it was still good and then off to Uluru itself. It really is truly amazing, apparently there are a number of theories about how it came to be here but no one is certain. All they do know is that it's a monolith (i.e. A rock on it's own). What's also interesting is that it's on its side which can be seen by it's striation markings. They had a shop with genuine aboriginal art and carvings at the information centre, but the cheapest painting was about $300 and the carvings, such as genuine boomerangs were a similar price!



Back to the hotel at about 1100am and sitting by the pool in the boiling hot sun. Calum has taken a dip but the water is freezing.



This afternoon it's Camel riding! Picked up from the Hotel at 2.00pm and taken into the bush to the Camel Ranch, then paired up and put onto camels. Les and Calum shared a camel whilst Jen shared with a young girl called Louise.

We then followed a trail into the bush with views of Uluru. Great fun but you feel like you've done the splits when you get off! Jen's camel - Ned- was even famous having stolen the show on the film Australia staring Nichole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and Ned (sadly Ned is only seen during the opening credits!)



Jenny with Ned



Calum and Les on Apollo.

After the ride, into Ayers Rock town for a bit of food shopping and coffee then back to the room to clean up and rest.

Sydney tomorrow - should be able to send the last three Blogs (including this one) from there - more to follow:


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