Blogs from Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 10

July 13th. Francine drops me off at the train station and walks me in making sure that I am getting on the right platform. To make my way into Sydney and the Domestic airport. She directs me to the right but I really need to go left and wrote down the connecting platform as 22 but really 23. See why we are so good together when we travel. No matter what, we always get where we need to go. Francine is so waiting for the Amazing Race to allow pairs from different countries to compete. She is going to submit us. LOL wouldn't that be something. On the ride in to the city, I looked over my present from Francine. A small book on the Aussie slang. My sister Cindy actually got me one at home ... read more

31 May - 5 June 2011 You can't go to the Red Centre without doing the three major tourist attractions and they certainly didn't disappoint! We stayed 3 nights at Kings Canyon which allowed us to do the short walk into the base of the canyon and also the walk to Kathleen Springs one day and then the 6km walk around the perimeter of the canyon the following day. The drive to Kings Canyon was an interesting one as we thought we were heading into a huge dust storm but later realised it was backburning on a very large scale. We couldn't turn around because of distances, etc so we were feeling a little anxious for a short time. We have noticed since being in the N.T. that the backburning takes place on a large scale ... read more

En quittant les petits monts insolites de Coober Pedy, nous nous sommes dirigés vers le « Red Centre ». Nous attaquons ainsi la partie centrale de l’Australie, cœur rouge, terre rouge, trésors rouges… Nous reprenons donc la Stuart Highway que nous avons quitté l’histoire de 2-3 jours pour l’escale à Coober Pedy. Notre route va encore une fois traverser de magnifiques paysages de l’outback, nous donnant tout de même l’impression que les décors changent petit à petit. L’outback devient plus aride, la végétation sèche, la chaleur monte, la terre devient plus foncée… ça promet ! Pour atteindre notre prochaine destination, nous traversons encore une fois une frontière et arrivons dans un autre Etat : les Territoires du Nord. Après avoir fait le plus long trajet de notre épopée en une journée, à savoir 731 kilomètres en ... read more

Yulara, the service town for Uluru, was not at all like we had imagined. We thought that it would be a small town however it was more a collection of different standards of accommodation from camping up to 5 star and a small supermarket for them all. Thankfully there was a petrol station there which was a bit cheaper. We got up early the next morning and managed to pack everything away in time to make to it to Uluru by 8am, just in time for the guided ranger walk. he told us a bit about the culture of the local people, the Anangu, and how they managed to survive off the land. He also explained why Uluru was so important to them. In the Anangy culture every creature has a story about their creation. These ... read more

Day 146-148 29th-31stJanuary This blog is dedicated to my Grandma. She always wanted to go to Uluru and loved looking at these photos and hearing all about it when we returned. We miss you every day. xxx We had an early flight the next day to Uluru and Wade and Melissa had really kindly offered to drive us to Sydney Airport which was really cool of them because we had to leave the house at 6am! We were all fairly quiet on the way there and it was a bit of a sad goodbye to them both at the airport. The world is a big place and who knows when we will meet again? We really got an idea of how freaking big Australia is on our flight to Uluru. Its 1347 miles away and the ... read more