Into the Outback…

So, after a bit of a long travel day getting to Alice Springs, we were up at 5am the next morning to head off into the Outback. Our mode of transport for the next 3 days was a rather cool 4WD truck/bus, shared with 12 other people and Steve, our driver/guide.
After about 6 hours and 450km, we caught our first glimpse of Uluru - Ayers Rock. Strange that a big rock in the middle of nowhere can be so captivating, but it really was. The history of Uluru and it’s Aboriginal owners is fascinating… if not a little hard to get your head around as we walked about 7km around some of it’s base in 39d heat… but it’s incredibly photogenic and I apologise now for the amount of pictures of a red rock with a blue sky background that some of you are going to have to sit through over the coming months.

Here’s just one example…