Friday, May 05, 2006

The Red Centre....Day 1: Kings Canyon.

Arrived at Dessert Gardens hotel and our self catering Emu Park apartments were tucked behind. Cool to be first drop off for any coaches....so we always got good seats!



Sorry to show you a boring pool picture...but this had to be blogged as the coldest pool we think we have ever been in!! How can it be 30 outside and the water be cold enough to make your head hurt? How do children go in anything?



Kings Canyon was a 3 hour drive away...another early morning start....4.30am: Kangaroos in the headlights, on the road...alive! made it worthwhile for me!
Chris did the rim walk, up "Cardiac hill", for 3 hours, while the children and I did the tame 90 mins along the base...very pleasant discussing trees etc and the poor tour guide couldn't get away from Jessica's incessant talking! Alex just sulked because Daddy had gone off and he thought he could have done the 3 hour walk!!








































Chris took some photos using Alex's camera...

On the way back....what did we see?
You could be forgiven for thinking that this is Uluru.....it's not! It's Mount Connor! (the Aborigines haven't renamed this one yet!)
















We made Uluru in various forms......painted it using the red sand, mixed with glue and Chris created Uluru from mash and tomato, with basil sauce? It was like watching Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.









Attractive fly nets....but the hazard of hot weather!

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