Breakfast was only toast and cereal. Again, this was not substantial enough to do the up coming hike.
Today we have tackled Kata Tjuta. It was around 5.5km and it took about 2.5hrs. I carried 3 litres of water with me again. We started this hike at 9am so the temperature wasn't as hot as yesterday. About 1km to the finish, one of the English ladies in our group showed signs of heat stroke and had to sit in the shade for a bit. That gave our guide a fright. But she was fine after 5-10 minutes. By the time we got back to the van, it was blistering hot.
Picture taken on Kata Tjuta
For today's lunch we had wraps with yesterday's beef and beans leftovers and lots of fresh vegetables. I helped cut the tomatoes, so that I don't have to do the dishes. We also opened 2 cans of tuna. Remember the amount of flies that I mentioned earlier? Well they haven't gone away. While we were making and eating lunch, it was hovering and landing on all our food. Especially the tuna, the flies love them, and a large concentration of them were hovering around it. I had to constantly wave them away from my plate.
Then we did the Mala walk and Kantju gorge. It was an easy 2km walk that took us 1 hr. Sam, our guide, told us many stories along the way. They were childrens stories because thoses are the only ones that he was allowed to share with us.
We stopped at the Aboriginal Culture Centre to be cultured. I read a few letters from the Sorry Book. The letters were from the tourists that had climbed the rock or took pieces of the rock. They apologised for their actions and some people report having really bad things happen to them and by returning the piece of rock, they're hoping to change their fortune.
We spent the evening watching the spectacular sunset over Uluru. Sam cooked us dinner while we took in the sights. We watched the rock change colour over a period of an hour. We did quite a few silly things there too. But I can't say because what goes on tour stays on tour! :)
We spent the night at Ayers Rock campground and had the only bush tucker site. We slept in swags again. We had a large campfire going and I massaged a few necks that evening with my muscle reliever. That was an instant hit. I went to bed after midnight and starred at the stars. Luke and Felicitas told me that they saw shooting stars the night before so I will try to spot some tonight.
Collecting firewood for the camp fire and for cooking our dinner on the first day.
No comments:
Post a Comment