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Hi travel followers.
Time for a fresh update on our adventures and where we are at etc.
After leaving Uluru (
not before a dingo stole one of my shoes - must have smelt good after a 15km walk the previous day) we headed for Kings Creek Station for an overnight stay and then on to Kings Canyon Resort for a few nights to soak up the area before again moving on.Kings Creek Station was an excellent one night stopover on the station itself and appears to mainly deal in "camels". Apparently it is the worlds largest supplier of wild camels.
The camp ground itself is pretty basic, (has showers and toilets) but that is part of the ambiance where they allow open air campfires and you lay in bed at night listening to a Dingo or two howling in the darkness. I must add however there appears to be a little scalping going on when it comes to fuel prices as they were selling Diesel for $2.48/ltr. Petrol was even dearer. Lucky we didn't need fuel as the Landcruiser has a good long range tank.At Kings Creek Resort the camp area was a little more up market, but
only marginally dearer per night and Diesel was $2.33/ltr. but again I only did a splash and dash of fuel as we are only 330kms from Alice Springs and fuel prices are much better there. $1.77/ltr.
I know I have been saying WOW a lot when it comes to our destinations, but Kings Canyon has to rate as a double WOW!!!
The scenery was just mind blowing and the camera worked overtime as we did all the walks possible, including the "Rim Walk" with all the extra side walks like the Garden of Eden added in. All up it was around 9 or 10 kms and very spectacular. Again we got to enjoy the occasional Dingo strolling through the camp area in the late afternoons.
After three days it was time to head for Alice Springs via an overnight stop at Stuart Wells Roadhouse and camp ground. To get there I decided to put the Off Road capability of the Landcruiser and the Crusader caravans Off Road suspension to the test and took the Ernest Giles Track (can't call it a highway) which is 110kms of Bull Dust, Corrugations and Gibber track.
I must say both
vehicles handled the experience impeccably and at the end of the day I was sitting there with a beer in my hand and a huge smile on my face. On the way we also did a slight detour to the Henburys Meteorite Crater which added the extra 10km, but was a welcome diversion.
We have just arrived in Alice Springs, set up camp and headed straight to Woolworths to restock as we had considerably depleted our food and alcohol supplies over the last week or so as prices at Uluru and Kings Canyon are basically highway robbery.
With that in mind I will leave you to view the photos taken at Kings Canyon.
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