As you can see from our “see where we are” link, we are still playing catch up with our Blogs, don’t want to miss out anything! Left Alice Springs and headed to Stuart’s Well, which was only 97kms away. Cute little Pub, Roadhouse and camping area. That night while we were at the Bar, playing Pool, the owner Jim came in with his Dingo and next thing the Dingo was on the Piano tickling the ivories and howling as if he was singing. Cool! Unfortunately the camera was in Tiki Tourer so didn’t get any photos. next morning on the way to Uluru we stopped at Desert Oaks for Bacon & Eggs and to catch up on emails etc.
Drove straight to the entrance to Uluru and discovered that to get into the park was $25 each, so went back to the Caravan Park (4kms) got settled in, then took the Suzuki off the trailer to get ready to see the Rock at Sunset. Dearest Park we have stayed in so far @ $41 a night.
An awesome site! Too may different colours to post all photos. Next morning we packed up and headed back to Uluru in Tiki Tourer. Tui was keen to climb the Rock! Got to the entrance and the climb was closed because of high winds. A very disappointed Tui, so decided to do a couple of walks and drive around it and see if it had opened by the time we got to the start of the climb.
Got to the start of the climb and it was open!! A very excited Tui set off while Jude prepared meat for the EcoPot for dinner that night.
See how small Tiki Tourer looks!
He made it!!!
We decided to stay at a free camp at Curtin Springs on the way back out.
Big decisions next morning on whether we would drive out to Kings Canyon which was over 500kms by the time we drove out and back. We would have to top up with fuel and had no service so couldn’t check work emails etc. Decision was made to give it a miss. In hindsight we should have gone to see it as we probably won’t pass this way again.
Into another State, across the South Australian Border!
Stopped at a free camp on the way to Coober Pedy where we had service. Just on dark Tui heard rustling noises and went to investigate. Wow, there were thousands of mice everywhere!! As we have had experience with mice in Tiki Tourer before, Tui said “pack up we are out of here” Bit scary driving in the dark with Cattle and Kangaroos on the road! Stopped at Cadney Homestead, arriving at 8.30pm.
Off to Coober Pedy in the morning but more about that in the next Blog. Until then “Laugh more, live longer”.