Central Australia

Hello Everyone!

I have no pictures to post here, because they were lost on another computer :( I am sad about this though Devon has taken some of the same shots and there were many people there that took photos so I should be able to salvage some. So this post will have to have no pictures I am so sorry.

I am back from my adventure from the central Australia! It was an amazing trip to a place that has a completely different atmosphere than anywhere I have been before! We went on a tour with Adventure Tours for three days. Our tour guide Jimmy was great he had lots of great information and took care of us really well. We woke up at the early hour of 5 am to catch the bus at 6am. We got to take the five hour drive to the Ulga rocks. We went for a walk around part of the Ulgas. The views were great though they were obscurred by the overzealous flies that wanted to enter our mouths, ears or eyes. So it was distracting a bit to have flies up your nose and unnattentionally eating them as well. Despite these over friendly flies we stayed out to see the sunset over Ayers Rock. This unfortunately was not amazing because of the clouds. So we headed to camp and we got to eat not only kangaroo and beef but also camel!! I enjoyed all of it. The only down side of this trip was the early mornings, each morning we got up at 5 or earlier. The next morning we headed out to catch the sun rise on Ayers Rock, this was much better than the sunset. Afterwards we walked around Ayers Rock. You can walk up the rock but it due to weather we couldn't and the aboriginal peoples there don't want people to because it is against their culture. Fun fact: Ayers rock is actually one rock that was pushed up over time from underground! We then travelled to Kings Canyon (4 long hours) where we made camp and went swimming!! If you ever travel to Australia I highly recommend sleeping in the outback in a swag. This made my night. The stars here are amazing as they are completely different from home, you can see the milky way and Orion is upsidedown. The final day of our trip started with another early early morning to walk Kings Canyon. This was one of my favourite places on the tour it was a semi arid desert. The walk was a mixture of desert and fauna with a waterfall at the end. The rest of the day was another long drive (another 5 hours) back to Alice Springs. So that are the events of this tour which I highly recommend. The YHA here in Alice is alright though it might be an idea to check out other hostels as some of them have free breakfasts an other perks. We are headed for Cairns today where it is supposed to be rainy and stormy all week... Well we aer hoping for the best. So I will update you again as we work our way down the coast.