It rains rarely in the Center. But, guess what? It poured on this day, our early visit to Uluru to see the sun rise. NOT! We walked all around the rock and the rain started about halfway. Most everyone who was not prepared got soaked. And note, there is no where for the water to go. It just flows down the rock and over the path. Annamieke, a girl from Holland, has a video of the people who were watching a lovely waterfall which turned into a mini flood. They are running away like in a movie.
Notice the water running off the rocks in these two pictures.
But then the sun came out, and it was a glorious day. So nice to be a tourist when the weather cooperates.
This was our little group of Adventurers. We came from all over the world.
This was our last campsite near Kings Canyon. It looks nice during the sunny day, but at night, it was very dark here, with washrooms and showers which were not very nice.
Note the bug hats and netting. Some people braved the bugs, but not I.
Off to the hike at King's Canyon. Again, another early start due to the heat and a very tortuous climb to start with. But the views were outstanding.
Watch out for the cliff. As they say in China, 'no climbing over'.
The canyon has some very interesting drop offs. I stayed quite far away from them.
This is as far as I am going.
Sometimes, we were reminded of the Grand Canyon.
We walked to a small swimming hole where a few brave souls went swimming. They said that the water was surprisingly warm.
We got to one point where you could lie down on the cliff face and look over the edge. This was as close as I got. I couldn't even let Jannose join the group looking over the edge.
Then, we arrived in Alice Springs. We climbed up a small hill which had a panoramic view of the town. This was the end of our tour with the group. We saw a lot of them while wandering the streets of Alice.
Thought that this was an interesting name for a day care facility in the area.
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