Australia 2013 - Tuesday 5 March to Thursday 7 March

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We left Uluru early on Tuesday morning and drove about three hours to Kings Canyon. Another one resort place in the outback.

We drove out to the Canyon in the afternoon and did the creek walk which is just about an hour.

The next morning, Wednesday, we were up and out to start the Canyon's rim walk by 7am in the morning. This is a 6 kilometer walk which they suggest takes around 3 and a half hours, and they don't let anyone start this walk after 9am because of the heat.

They advise you to take one and a half litres of water per hour of walking, but we couldn't carry 9 litres between us so settled on 4 and a half litres.

It is a strenous climb to start, but once up at the top it's OK. There is a lush region at the top called the garden of eden.

It only took us two and a half hours and not even two litres of water.

So around 10am we set off for Alice Springs. This was a long six hour drive through the same unchanging scenery.

On Thursday we phoned "Kangaroo Dundee" a guy who rescues kangaroos near Alice Springs, but his rescue sanctuary has been closed while the BBC are filming him and won't re-open until the end of March so we couldn't go there and we were really disappointed.

So we went to a reptile centre instead!

Next it's an overnight stay in Perth before Shark Bay

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Photos

Kings Canyon
Reached the top, around 7.20am

Kings Canyon
An oasis exists at the top, a water hole, many species of flora and fauna

Kings Canyon
One side og the canyon wall

Kings Canyon
The chasm

on the road to Alice Springs
..six hours from Kings Canyon

Thorny Lizard
Yes, this leaf is a lizard

As near as I get
to a salt water crocodile

A python
no, I'm not touching it

Tree Frog
This doesn't look real, it looks ceramic, but we saw it eating so it is real!