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Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 24th 2009

Our time is almost up as caretakers of Hamilton Downs Youth Camp. This place has opened up a whole new window of opportunity for Kris and I for future employment. We have become involved in a Diversion Program for Aboriginal youths. The program is coordinated by NT family services and Kris and I applied to coordinate the next program in June and we got the contract. Jake, Jasmin and Mia were here for the holidays and the last week of the diversion program. We were involved in lots of interesting activities with the kids. We went out for a day and cooked Kangaroo tails in the ground, spuds, sweet potatoes and made dampers. We looked for bush tucker and found bush bananas, which I thought tasted like green peas not a banana at all. Jake, Clancy, ... read more
Cooking Kangaroo tails
Harvey, Clancy and Norman
Standley Chasm

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 23rd 2009

Thursday was the third day of our Rock Tour trip. With our first day focusing on Kings Canyon and the second on Kata Tjuta, this was our Uluru day. The day before, we tried to see the sunset on Uluru, but rain clouds prevented that. So we made sure to get up bright and early to see the sunrise on Uluru instead, which is supposed to yield similar results. Well, it didn’t last long, but it was definitely amazing! The giant rock goes from grayish one second, to bright red the next! The colour contrast compared to everything else was so crazy! Unfortunately, it just doesn’t last that long, so it was over before we knew it. However, we were really lucky because just as the rock began to glow red, a beautiful rainbow appeared, forming ... read more
Sunrise - 02
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Sunrise - 04

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 22nd 2009

Day 2: We were up early on our second day in the Outback, around 6:30am. It’s nice to get up in the Outback before the sun rises, because as soon as it does, the millions and millions of flies swarm around you. After rolling up our swags and eating a quick breakfast, we were on the road again, heading to our next destination. On the way, we stopped for some good, old-fashioned grub digging! Luckly for us, we didn’t find any so we didn’t have to eat any!! Haha We arrived in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park around 9:40am, and got our first glimpse of Uluru!! Uluru is the largest monolithic (single rock) structure in the world. It appears red due to the high level of iron in the sand of the Outback. It is of great ... read more
Grub Digging
Grub Digging - 2
Uluru View

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 11th 2009

Del Jueves 2 al Martes 7-Abr-09 Esta parte del viaje la voy a realizar en un mítico tren llamado Ghan y que atraviesa todo el desierto australiano hasta llegar a Alice Spring, justo en el centro, el viaje dura 23 horas y aunque hay unas cabinas cojonudas con camas estupendas que incluyen la cena y tal y tal, yo me conformo con un asientito normal (que eso si, tiene dos posiciones de reclinado) y gracias a unas tarifas de súper oferta, por que hasta estos asientos son bastante caros. Tanto el tren como el viaje están bien, aunque ambos han perdido bastante la emoción y ese regusto a aventura que tuviera en otros tiempos, este tren es ya bastante “moderno”, con su aire acondicionado, ventanas y puertas dobles y selladas, restaurante, duchas, asientos individuales, lo ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 5th 2009

Alice Springs airport consists of a short runway, two shacks, and thats it. Pretty cool. Especially after the big commericalism that i hated so much about the bloody east coast. All around there was desert, dusty, red, desert. I had one day to recover from two early morning bed times and two early morngin wake ups before having to get up at half four for my five am pick up, which was late. Not a good start. There were 13 of us on the bus, but only 9 were doing the six day tour, while the other 4 were doing a two day. We drove for a fair few hours before our first big stop. Kings Canyon. This is a fascinating canyon with almost alien and lunar rock formations carved from years of wind and rain ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 2nd 2009

After a good nights sleep (the room had much needed air conditioning) although a bit short , we woke up at 5am ready for watching sunrise. Again we take the Uluru Express bus to the car park to watch sunrise at 6.54 am. Along with about 200 other visitors we wait and get our positions ready for the sun to light up this famous rock. We were provided with a hot drink and biscuits while we waited and started taking pictures of the sunrise in front of Ayers Rock and the rock it self as the colour got more red by the minute. The sky was perfectly clear and blue as the sun rose and the shadows were quite amazing. Uluru is 3.6km long and 348 metres high and is sacred in Anangu law. At ... read more
Ayers Rock Sunrise
Ayers Rock Sunrise
Ayers Rock Sunrise

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru April 1st 2009

Yesterday was spent packing and getting organised to leave the home comforts of Aunty Rose and Tony's house so no blog was typed and no pictures taken! This morning we left the house at 8am and headed for Perth domestic airport to catch our flight to Ayers Rock. It was sad to say goodbye to Aunty Rose and Tony as they have looked after us so well and we didn't feel ready to leave as we were enjoying our stay so much. Our flight departed on time at 10.10am it was a small and quiet plane that took us north east to Ayers Rock airport. The time in the Northern Territory is 1.5 hours ahead of Perth and we land at 2pm local time. The airport is tiny as it only caters for a few flights ... read more
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Ayers Rock sunset
Ayers Rock sunset

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru March 27th 2009

Whitney and I have been very busy since she's been here. The day after she arrived was St. Patty's Day! :) So we all got dressed in green and went out to the Down Under Bar. We got home around midnight and then had to wake up VERY early the next morning (4 am to be exact) and be on a plane by 7am. We were flying to ULURU! The second largest rock in the world (the first is also in Australia) We only stayed one night but we got to see the sunset and the sunrise on the rock. It was beautiful and well worth the lack of sleep. I'm posting lots of pictures. Love, Nicole ... read more
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Whitney in front of Uluru
Waiting for sunset

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru March 2nd 2009

Wow it's hot here!! The air is so dry and it's beating down....40 deg.C or more.. The train journey on The Ghan from Adelaide was pretty slow actually, but apparently that's because it's a very long train and a single track railway, so the danger is derailment in an isolated place...nasty. We had a Red sleeper cabin, which is basically like a wardrobe with pull down bunk beds! Nick slept ok but I had trouble with the constant movement. Still it was a great way to meet other travellers and the staff we pretty friendly. (I wouldn't recommend the food on this service, you had to buy your own food in the cafe style diner car) So Alice Springs is really hot so I had a bit of a swim in the pool and then before ... read more
Camel riding at Camel farm stop!
The Olgas
First look out point  in the Valley of the Winds

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru February 24th 2009

Hopefully this will be the photos! COuldn't get them all on - but there is the road train that had to pull us out of the mud; a red kangaroo;floods in Bourke; Birdsville track and uluru. More later... read more
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