Today's destination: Rawnsley Park

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Let's play some hangman
Long day on the road again
Will help pass the time.

Apparently the girls next to us in the underground room were very noisy when they got back last night. There was only a thin wooden wall separating our rooms and Mandy couldn't take it anymore and asked them to be quiet 3 times. I was so "dead to the world" that I didn't hear any of it and didn't hear about the incident until we all woke up this morning! lol

6:30 take off. I witnessed yet another amazing sunrise. Not the most spectacular but always nice to see the reds and pinks in the sky. Opposite the sunrise the sky was striped blue, pink and blue. Apparently this was from the shadow of the Earth.

First stop of the morning was at Lake Hart, a salt water lake. Also a former site used for bomb droppings/detonations. The lake is still full of undetonated mines! It was nice to get off of the bus and stretch our legs for a bit. Was cool to walk along the lake and see all of the sparkly (I'm assuming salt...) sand before us. It really looked like diamonds!

Soon we were off again. This time heading towards Port Augusta for our lunchtime stop of can you guess? Yup, sandwiches again! It's really not all that bad having a fully loaded sandwich everyday for lunch. Heck I used to have plain bologna or turkey loaf sandwiches for lunch almost everyday of my school career! (Okay, so I'm probably exaggerating a bit but you get the point.) I just remind myself that it could be worse...liver and onions or something. lol

Today’s highlight of wildlife spotting included watching two wild emus running in a field. Watching their feathers bounce in the wind sort of made them look a tad elegant. Surprising for such an unattractive bird. A few fun facts about emus:
* male emus take care of the young.
* 53 day incubation.
* male emus care for their young for 12 months while the female emu takes off!
* emus can run about 50 to 60km/hour
* young emus learn all their skills from the male...not by instinct.
* Related to the cassowary.
* They also have a three claw foot and the middle claw is deadly when they strike.

More awe-inspiring sunrises and sunsets witnessed today. I thought a 4:30 wake up call for sunrise over Uluru was early. Then Tanya pointed out that in summer the tours have to get up by 3:30 and then sunset is around 8:30. So that makes for an extremely long day!

After lunch we had a short drive of about 1.5 hours to our Rawnsley Park accommodations for the night. I hear there will be a 3.2 km steep hill trek tomorrow so I must conserve my energy until then! lol

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