(photos: "Wot Flies??!!", the Olgas, Uluru)21 Sept Fri
Hil and I got up early and left at 6 to see the sunrise. We walked through the red sand to a little hill near our condo designated as a lookout point. The sun came up and we watched Uluru turn from lavender to pale orange.
We returned and Bob eventually emerged and we breakfasted on fried eggs and toast before setting off to drive again around Uluru to see it in the morning sun. We were planning to take a couple of hikes from the road to the rock, but the parking lots were already full of tour buses and we couldn’t face another fiasco like King’s Canyon and so left and headed west 40 km. to the Olgas, lovely, lumpy lavender shapes on the horizon. Until you get very close, the Olgas appear to be made of very similar rock to Uluru, but when you start walking among them you realize they are all conglomerate pudding stone, not sandstone.
We hiked up a canyon and suddenly saw a pair of Red Kangaroos feeding on the grass. Red are the biggest ‘roos and most resemble the Quantas symbol. Until they hopped off they were indistinguishable from the red rock around them.
We drove back to the Resort, divided up a sandwich and I took my computer over to Sails-in-the-Desert Hotel where I bought a password number in order to use their wireless and blog at last. I looked rather disreputable in their lobby surrounded by their smartly dressed guests, but blogged away anyway for a couple of hours.
At four we drove back to the Rock and took a couple of short walks to cave paintings and a water hole and admired the wonderful colors and textures of the massive rock. We drove back at sunset and went to a café near our condo and had lamb, steak and risotto with red wine.
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