March 17 & 18
There were a couple of things we didn't get to see yesterday because they were too far to walk and it was too darned hot...one of the things was the Serbian Church, it was incredible to see and very large to be underground.
This is a church, hall & residence, it goes into the hill a long way.
This is the entry into the church
Looking up at the stained glass windows from the alter area
This is from the window area looking toward the alter
After we left the church we headed out to the breakaways. It is an area that looks like it was broken away from the rest of the land around it. You will be driving along and all of a sudden there is a totally different landscape. Ground temperatures here get as high as 65 degrees. I can't even imagine how hot that is.
I forgot to mention the Golf Course...they give you a piece of Astroturf to carry around with you for putting your ball on so you don't have to smash your clubs into the desert sand and/or gravel. Dalton didn't want to play there...I wonder why!
It just looks so different from flat, flat, flat
Dalton can't believe how they are just able to leave all the piles of dirt where it is. He says the government should make them fill in all the holes.
The entire area around Coober Pedy is like this.
We finally got out of South Australia and into the Northern Territory. We were told it would be desert all the way, however, the 80 year drought broke several weeks ago and everything is lush and green, it is hard to imagine that nothing grew here when you see all the grass growing.
We arrived at Erldunda, and ran into the couple we met in Coober Pedy, Des and Penny. We were camping beside them, it was 37 degrees and there was a pub so we went to check it out. We stayed there for a few hours before heading back to the van. The air conditioner had cooled it down nicely.
We wanted to get an early start for Uluru but had to fill up the van with diesel at $1.66 per litre, it was the highest price yet.
Oh, I also had to fight with the Christmas beetles for space at the sink when I wanted to brush my teeth in the Ladies washroom, the worse one yet. This is very surprising because they are usually so clean.
If you are wondering what a Christmas beetle is (picture a lady bug, only 10 x bigger and iridescent green), not really yucky, just big and bothersome.
On the way to Uluru, we actually passed two vehicles cutting grass beside the road, that is something that has probably not been seen in 80 years. Again everything was green instead of red. The dirt is really red. Red dust gets into everything, however, it hasn't started to bother us just yet.
We couldn't believe we drove all this way to look at a big rock, so we looked at several.
You have to admit it does look pretty spectacular, we are going back tonight to see it at sunset, supposed to be awesome, We aren't sure about seeing it at sunrise, we may be on our way to Kings Canyon by then.
Kata-Tjuta (the Olgas) from a distance
The front part - wish we had a wide angle lens. We really need one to capture the whole vista
The back side of the Olgas.
Dalton at Uluru - dig his fancy headgear!
It might not be pretty but it works!
And not to be outdone... isn't that a beautiful bench I am sitting on!
This is at a look-out at Uluru.
We are staying in a huge campground just out of the National Park. Yulara...pretty name!
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