Ormiston Gorge - Day 1 - Setting up camp.
Ormiston Gorge - Day 2 - Ghost Gum by Sunrise.
Ormiston Gorge - Day 2 - Tim and Peter on Gorge Rim.
Ormiston Gorge - Day 2 - Marcia and Meryl on Gorge Rim.
Ormiston Gorge - Day 2 - Gorge Floor.
Peter and 4WD on road to Tnorala.
Albert Namajira's House - West MacDonnell Ranges.
Hermansberg - Mission Church.
Footprints in Red Dirt.
Palm Valley - Tim and Dad overlooking The Ampitheatre.
Kings Canyon - Marcia and Meryl hiking through the Lost City.
Kings Canyon - Marcia on Canyon Rim.
Kings Canyon - German's trying to kill themselves on Canyon Rim.
Kings Canyon - Meryl on Canyon Rim.
Kings Canyon - Marcia by bare Canyon Wall. The biggest surprise of the trip for me was Kings Canyon. I read today in the Sunday Mail that UK tourists vote it the second most impressive sight in Australia which I never would have believed until I actually saw it. I used to think Kings Canyon was a secondary sight that you did if you had a few extra days in the area, but it's definitely a first tier sight in its own right. A 200m high canyon with the rims on each side topped with a 'Lost City' of Bungle Bungle style beehive shaped sedimentary domes and a 'Garden of Eden' oasis on the canyon floor. Spectacular.
Uluru - Meryl and Marcia by the Rock.
Uluru - East Side with view of The Brian.
Uluru - close up of rock face. The rusting of the ore on the face of Uluru is what gives the Rock its colour. This oxidisation process also gives the rock a tesselated surface.
Uluru - dark brown.
Uluru - light orange.
Uluru - light red.
Uluru - bright red.
Uluru - blue - after rain. This was one time when bad weather added to a travel experience rather than detracted from it. The storm clouds created quite a dramatic effect and when it actually rained, the surface water turned the rock a deep blue with visible veins of flowing (if not exactly gushing) water.
Kata Juta - red from the distance.
Kata Juta - perspective shot. While I'd once thought of Kata Juta as some smaller loose rocks near Uluru - in fact Kata Juta is around 200 m higher than Uluru.
Uluru - bright red by clear sky.
Uluru - black by sunset.
Marcia with snake at Alice Springs Wildlife Park.
Marcia with Thorny Devil at Alice Springs Wildlife Park.
Standley's Chasm - Tim walking into Chasm.
Ormiston Gorge - Tim walking on Gorge floor.
Gosse Bluff perspective shot.
Hermansberg - car body.
Palm Valley - cliff face.
Palm Valley - Ghost Gum at Ampitheatre.
Palm Valley - campsite.
Kings Canyon - Marcia, Meryl and Tim at start of hike.
Kings Canyon - Tim on Cayon edge.
Kings Canyon - Tim on ridge.
Kings Canyon - Tim on cliff edge.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Tim bush cooking Roo Tails. Burning off the tail hair. While my eagerness to ensure all of the hair on the Kangaroo tails was adequately burnt off meant that the final product was somewhat over charred, the meat that wasn't incinerated in the fire was red, tender and juicy. With a bit more practice in the preparation stakes this could become a camping mainstay for me. The smell of burning roo hair and the sound of retching foreigners definitely makes bush cooked roo tail a multi-modal dining experience.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Tim bush cooking Roo Tails. Roasting the Tail in the fire coals.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Meryl's first taste of Roo Tail.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Meryl, Tim and Marcia tucking into Roo Rail.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Meryl, Tim and Marcia tucking into Roo Rail2.
Kings Canyon Campsite - Tim and Jokers eating Roo Tail.
Kings Canyon - Sturt's Desert Pea.
Feral Camels.
Tim in front of Uluru.
Meryl and Marcia in front of Uluru.
Tim, Marcia, Meryl and Peter in front of Uluru.
Uluru - Rock Climb.
The Japanese couple in full formal wedding attire in 30 degree heat standing in front of a tripod mounted camera on the road to Uluru. It transpires that it was the couple's 10th wedding anniversary and they had taken their original honeymoon in Australia and wanted to recreate the trip. Marcia and Meryl didn't know whether to be more impressed at the romanticism of the groom or at the fact that the bride still fitted into her wedding dress!
Tim, Meryl and Marcia on roof of 4WD watching sunset at Uluru.
Uluru - Tim in front of red rock - Kevin 07 again!
Uluru - streams of water on the rock.
