15/11/06 - 21/11/06 After 3 days chilling out in Darwin, admiring the 80’s fashions, shopping and drinking cocktails in the Novotel Jabiru cocktail bar, we headed down south on a Quantas flight to Alice Springs. Back to our grueling touring schedule, we grabbed a 3 day tour heading out to Uluru, leaving the next morning at 06:30. Although Alice Springs is the major town in central Australia, it’s still over 450km from Uluru (Ayres Rock). We left Alice and immediately saw a rare sighting of 2 Wedgies, Australian for Wedge-tailed eagles - Australia’s biggest bird of prey, perched in a tree by the roadside, obviously close to a kangaroo corpse on the roadside. On road to the ‘red centre’ attractions we stopped at Erlunda and Mt Eberneezer roadhouses. Erlunda roadhouse is allegedly the most central inhabited
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