Outback Adventure

Hi Everyone,
Once again I am not running to schedule! I have been having some fun with my photos, and suddenly relisd I hadn't sent my blog off. So before I did some damage with my photos I thought I had better settle down and send this off.
Anne and I had a great trip up to Uluru and back and these are some more photos of that jaunt.
The camel and a younger one, just walked out of the scrub on the side of the road and blithely stepped out and across in front of me!
We made good time to Uluru and checked into the "resort" aka caravan park, very spacious and quite reasonably priced.(probably the only thing at Uluru that is!)

The price of diesel was $1.83, but at Eldunda, (the turn off) it was $1.90, and when we got to Kings Canyon, it was $2.20! We spent the rest of out arrival day just resting, reading, drinking, you know the type of thing! The next morning we took off to the Olgas, there are 36 domes, but you cant get any where to photograph more than a few at a time, except from the air perhaps. Any way it was latish in the afternoon and not very spectacular for colour, at least not with my camera! By the time we returned it was time to go to the sunset viewing area for Uluru. (it is about a 96 km round trip!)
So we settled in with our ground sheet (cos we didn't think of chairs!) but at least we had our nibbles and glases and champagne!

86 photos later I have quite a range of colours of the Rock, but nothing like the professionals get! I thought I wouldn't put them all on the blog! Here I am looking sufficiently outbackish I thought! The next photo shows greater colour differences. It really does look magnificent.

The final photo was one of many I took at Kings Canyon, another 300 kms from Uluru and again we had to backtrack over the same roads to get back to the Stuart Highway. We did the short walk, about 1.5 kms along the creek bed, it was quite relaxing, and Anne (who is a very keen photographer), enjoyed taking lots of photos of the scenery and other things. I even got quite excited over some pretty wildflowers and took lot of photos of the magnificent rivergums in the creek bed.There are also Coolibah trees (from Waltzing Matilda fame growing there too) but we could not identify which ones they were! Oh well you can't be perfect! I can sing the song though!
We retraced our steps down the Stuart Highway, but stayed overnight at a couple of different spots, (somewhat fewer mice!) But went back into Coober Pedy, and also repeated Lake Hart. As we came into Port Augusta, we stopped off for a farewell lunch at the Arid Lands Botanical Gardens and there we parted. Me to come on back to Clare and Anne to return to Port Lincoln, her home. I found it a wonderful experience and we were very compatible (on my part any way), and hope we get a chance to join up again for another jaunt when Anne is free of time. I took a beautiful photo of some Dessert Peas but am not sure what happened to them. I am currently trying to put my photos onto a data stick! So anything could happen to them!!
Anyway I must get some sleep and so Good Luck and Good Night to you all
until next week, vicki