Sunrise Silhouette

Sunrise behind the rock.

Sunrise on the Rock

Sunrise at Uluru. Amazing.

In the Valley of the Winds

A wonderful walk winding through the Olga's takes you to The Valley of The Winds. This wonderful vista awaits those adventurous enough to leave the fame of Uluru and see the often overlooked Kata Tjuta.

Another Side of the Rock

A walk around the base of Uluru takes you to many unique environments. It also provides amazing views and ever changing shapes with the passing of the sun.

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta in the dappled light of cloud shadows.

The Rock

Here it is. Uluru. In Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

Mount Conner

This is Mount Conner, about 100km from Uluru. It is also very big, but not famous like the rock. It's on a station called Curtin Springs.

The Alice

The sign on the southern entry to Alice Springs. It's a very nice town, larger than Mount Isa and as the locals say, 'the closest town to every beach in Australia'. See the video below for a panorama from the lookout on Anzac Hill in the middle of town. For a high resolution version see here on Flickr

Pretend Grids

Often there are cattle grids in the highway on the way to Alice Springs. They make a distinct 'zing-zing' rumble as you speed over them. Then sometimes you drive over them and there is no noise and no bumps and you wonder what happened. Then you stop to look and discover they are pretend grids. Paint on the road and signs to make them look like grids.

Speed

Outside of built up areas, the speed limit in the Northern Territory used to be unlimited. Now it is limited to 130 kilometres per hour. Previously, the real limit was that if you drove too fast you would not have enough petrol to get to the next fill-up. 130 is a good speed, you can do 400km in 3 hours.

Road to the Red Centre

I just took a short break for 6 days and drove to Uluru in the middle of Australia. On the way, just 150km or so out of the Isa, was this very large windmill. More photos and story to come.