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Published: August 13th 2009
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Kings Creek Station
This cattle station offers accommodation, fuel, meals and camel, quad bike or helicopter rides Day 11 9/8/2009 Ayres Rock to Kings Canyon
Left mid morning heading to Kings Canyon. Easy drive today as the road was tar all the way and stopping at Curtin Springs for fuel and lunch under the trees again. Fuel $1.70 per litre.
From there we turned off and headed north on Luritja Road to Kings Canyon. We called into Kings Creek Station which is a cattle station offering services similar to Curtin Springs but on a bigger scale - Fuel, accommodation, meals, souvenirs and camel, quad bike or helicopter rides. Very neat and tidy and staff very friendly.
From there it was only a short drive to Kings Canyon, approx 38 km. The Kings Canyon Resort is on the other side of the canyon offering accommodation for all budget levels. The camping ground was well set out with plenty of amenity blocks which all had washing machines on the verandas and large tubs with hot water to do your washing up. The resort offered a restaurant, hotel and a Mobil Service Station which is where you could buy a permit to travel the Meneni Loop Road and groceries to stock up before leaving.
The resort accommodation was built in
Kings Creek Station 2
Situated only 38km from Kings Canyon such a way that it blended into the landscape - we did not know if was there until we went up in a scenic helicopter ride over the canyon late in the afternoon and it was pointed out to us.
The helicopter ride was great - we saw so much more than we would have seen on the ground. The flight was for 15 minutes and cost $130 per head but was well worth it.
The camp oven worked a treat again - I cooked Beef Stroganoff for dinner and then cooked a chicken casserole for the following night.
In the process of preparing the food I noticed that the fridge was not as cold as normal and the lights were quiet dull. Brian found that the connection between the truck and the canopy had, in Brian’s terms "a hot joint” and in my terms “was stuffed”. So McGiver set to work again to work out how to fix it with his tools and maintenance bits and pieces we had with us. In the end Brian soldered the two cables together, with his mapgas bottle and solder, making it a permanent join until we get home. It
Camel rides
Just had to say hello and take a photo of the camels worked a treat and it is just as well we found it or we would have lost all of the food in the fridge and more importantly the freezer. (Ben, Brian's list has began for when he gets home).
We met our first dingo tonight as well - she looked only young and her milk bags hung down to indicate she had puppies somewhere. It was really hard not to feed her because she looked so skinny. Not long after that the dingos began to howl and other dingos started to roam the roads around our camp.
Tomorrow we are going to walk the canyon before heading off to Alice Springs via the Meneni Loop (great more dirt!)
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