Blogs from King's Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 5

We arrived at Kings Canyon...what a sight! It was mid afternoon and the sun was still shining but starting to go down a little...we made a cuppatea and sat on the bench seat...it was beautiful! Kings Canyon Resort campground was very well presented, they had a small shop where you could buy milk, bread and other small items...a good Cafe' and a really good bar-b-que area for dinner...the Barramundi was awesome and Keith loved his 350g rib eye steak! 'The Roadies' entertained us throughout the night with Australian ballads and jokes...it was school holidays and they had lots of the kids helping out with the show...the kids loved it and so did everyone else! The highlight of Kings Canyon had to be our Canyon Rim Walk, 6.6 klms starting with a stretch that seemed to go ... read more

Drove to here about 4 hours form Uluru, camped the in the swags again and had a 4.45am rise for the second morning in a row to see the sun rise in the Kings canyon which was worth the early rise. Walked round the Canyon which is really really impressivwe and worht every penny, it takes about 3 hours to walk and our guide was great with all information about the area. After the trek its time for lunch and a 5 hour drive back to Alice Springs where we have dinner that night to say goodbye to all the group and part our own ways... read more

Our morning consisted of getting up and piling in the troopies for a nice long ride to Kings Canyon. Before we left Mazz gave each troopie a roll of colored/scented trash bags to create something that we would judge when we got to Kings Canyon. I was in the “meals on wheels” food troopie with Lyndon and Ricky. We had the pink trash bags that smelled like berries. Ricky suggested we be superheros. Lyndon suggested Flys as a theme. I sketched out our costumes. Ricky and I worked on our costumes diligently for about the first hour of our drive but then gave way to naseua and lack of motivation. During our drive we stopped and saw many different animals. The first of which was a snake in the middle of the road. Lyndon said a ... read more

After looking around for a while Beej pulled off the road and found a pretty decent open area that had been used as a camp some time back. It was pretty flat if a little rocky, on one side the landscape had a few larger hill formations which for the area were quite unusual. As Beej had not camped here before it felt even more like an adventure. Straight away we all had tasks to do, Beej never told you what was needed he just expected you to know. He also never forced people to get involved so there were just a couple of people that constantly sat on their backsides. It did get annoying at times especially when it came to washing up and clearing away but as far as I was concerned they were ... read more

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