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Day 70 Friday 2nd JuneUp at 5 for 5 hour bus journey to Uluru 'Ayers Rock' Camp site. Watched an amazing sunrise as we drove. Definitely different crowd from the Oz Bus...about 3 times older+ and didn't want music on.....not looking good for a fun time, but let's give them a second chance. Long Outback roads but plenty of good stop off including a camel rid. Forgot to mention in previous journals that on the East coast there is a lot of Big thing, started by the Big Banana to promote the farmers banana business it worked so other people started erecting giant plastic models of what they sold to attract tourist,soon followedthe Big Pineapple, Crab, Prawn etc, and on the way to Uluru we saw the Bid Porcupine :o) Crossed the Finke River said to be the oldest in the world. By the way most of the Outback Rivers are dry bed, which means they flow under the surface except in the time of flood. In fact Alice Springs has a boat race with boats without bottoms and people run down the river like the Flinstones car :o) It is the only boat race they have to cancel if there is water in the river!!! On the way picked up some bush firewood for our camp fire tonight. Arrived at Camp and cut vegetables and made our sandwiches then we all washed up and headed for Kata Tjuta [Olgas] and hiked the spectaculer Valley of the winds' seeing a wallaby on the way. It is 36 lumps of rock which the aboriginals say are heads in the desert. One thing about the outback there are lots of flies and our guide says it is so much worse than this in the summer.Drove to Uluru to watch the sunset, unfortunately the guide forgot the champagne glasses, but the rest of the group didn't like my suggestion of drinking out of the bottle and would rather have it over dinner............ Ayers Rock with no Champers I don't think so jojned another Adventure Tours who shared their Champagne with me. The rock changes colour every 5 mins so it was a wonderful experience. Arrived back in camp and put in for an immedaite transfer to the other bus, so had dinner with my new 'fun' busmates after we had prepared and cooked the veg and meat..........and drank rather a lot too, which actually turned out to be a very good idea, as I was the only one who wanted to sleep outside and it was bloody cold, but the view of the stars as I looked up out of my Swag was amazing..... oh yes a swag is a canvas mattress which you get into like a sleeping bag, with your sleeping bag and it has a hood you can pull oover your head if it gets really cold..........well at about 3am it did, but so much fun to do it and the perfect outback feeling.
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