Friday, April 22, 2011

Marla to Uluru April 22nd

The highway reopened around 7pm last night, so it was a wise move to stay over at Marlo. We heard that the accident involved two cars and two people died in it, 2 adults and three children were injured. Very sad.

We had a good trip here, but the accident makes you think and I reckon we both drove a bit slower and more carefully than our usual slow and careful!

The roadhouse at Erldunda was mad with traffic-it's a sort of crossroads to North, South then out here to Uluru and King's Canyon. It was crawling with people. Our fuel tank is on the driver's side so we drove straight up to a diesel pump-the woman filling beside us had queued for half an hour on the other side to fill hers (on the passenger side.

The pretender Mount Connor about 100ks from Uluru


First real view of the real thing


We got out here to the rock around 3pm and I have to say it was amazing to arrive here in daylight and see it rising out of the plane as we drove in. The last time I was here, we arrived in the dark and I didn't get my first look at it until I'd fed 44 kids and teachers on a school bus their breakfast!



Russ and I set up the van, did a load of washing, then drove out to the park gates to get our 3 day park pass. We ended up at the base of the rock having Russ's first close up look then went back to the sunset viewing spot (with a couple of hundred other people) and waited til the sun went down before heading home for dinner. It truly is an amazing place and much more so in real life than you can imagine if you've only ever seen it in photos or on TV.





While we were at the base looking round, we found a phone on a bench. I put it in my pocket and waited for the owner to ring. She did around 8pm and we arranged to meet them at the office with the phone at 8.30. Linda and Illias are a lovely young Slovakian couple living in Sydney who were very happy we found the phone. They ended up back here at the van sharing a bottle of wine and a lot of talking and laughing with us and just left for their hotel at 11.15. A lovely day again!

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