got up about 5:30. went and had some free breekie, which is just toast and jam, but doens't it always taste better when its free....mmmmm.
Got picked up at about 06:10 our tour guide is a ozzie-greek called nick. actually the title he has on the list of names is nick the woggiest wog that ever wog'd the rock !!!! mmm interesting name, i guess its not the same way we would use the word wog!!! i did asked him in the end and it a wog is a greek bloke. so there you go learnt something new everyday.
(rock tour photos can be located at http://www.therocktour.com.au/, click on photo gallery, then i was on the 3rd september tour, check them out. im told there are there to stay forever, but incase there not, check them out. and yes the ice was cold. don't ask how i got in that position !!!)
there was 6 people from toddy's being picked up. gale (french), marie and noemie (french) lizzy (american, in pic above) paul (irish, in pic above) and me (the legend!!!).
There is a total of 14 people on this tour. 6 above. matt (english) arnoet (french) takashi (japan, and no he doens't live in a castle i did ask him. !!! lol) ilres (dutch girl i meet on litchfield tour) sidrip (german), karrina (german), dominic (german) emily (american) adam (american)
****there is a group picture, but i will add it to another day as that was when it was taken) ****
so to start with we have a 6 hour journey to ayers rock (Uluru), we had a few stops. one to get some lunch. one to get some wood for the camp fire tonight, strange you can stop anywhere on the side of the road and just collect wood. everyone chiped it. then a stop to get beer. i was the beerman. i had to get everyones order and then sort out money. wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. we actually got a good deal, if we can get everyone to have 30 cans we can get a slab (thats a case of beer to you and me) and it turns out to be $2 a can. not a bad price at all. at the moment it is $2.44 to the pound.
so got the beer had a quick bite to eat, and off to ayers rock. finally made it, wow it is rather impressive and big. so nick the tour guide took us down the part called the mala walk. basically he talks at alot of different points to tell you what the aborignis do within this sacred place and how they believe it was formed. some crazy ideas if you ask me. crazy crazy ideas.
then if we want to we can climb the rock, but it is a sacred ground and aborignis don't like you doing it, i would of liked to do it for the view and to say i had done it, but aborignis don't like you doing it, so most well nearly all of us didn't out of respect. only one person did, and yes it was gale the french bloke. fucking hell he makes me laugh, when we spent a day together he tells me he doens't want to meet french people, he would like to practise his english and doens't want to talk to french people. what BS, we had a french guy and two french girls. fucking hell all he did was talk constantly to them in fucking french and i am constantly even when nick was trying to explain things. then fucking french pissed everyone off with there constant talking. bloody french, no wonder england isn't meant to like them. not sure i do now either, they are all rude, ignorant and selfish people. bloody french.
anyway. once we had done the mala walk and learnt all about the sacred place and what it is used for, we got to do a 1hr 45min round the rock. i was thinking nick was coming to explain things, but he went to get petrol or something while everyone except gale took a walk round. remember gale was climbing the rock.
So that was ok. i mean it is a rock at the end of the day, it is impressive the way it is in the middle of nowhere, and it is im told 360foot high. so rather strange in such a flat desert area. and its red. not much else to say.
from the rock we went to watch the sunset in a carpark, right next to ayers rock. i was told it changes colour every 2mins and it is specatular. i didn't see it change colour every 2 mins. i saw it change from a red to a dark red and that was that. was nice to see and a experiance i won't forget, but not change every 2 mins. while we was watching the sunset, nick was cooking food, it was some chicken noodles. very nice indeed. it turns out nick can cook rather well. nearly as good as me !!!!!!
after that we went to a camp site. made a fire with the wood we had collected. Shame actually the fire had to be made in half an oil drum. little dissapointing actually this camping, i was expecting it to be in the middle of nowhere and make a big fire and chill. but we were in a camping area, which electricity and a oil drim that we had to make a fire in. nevermind was still lovely to do. and wow i have never seen so many stars in my life. such a beautiful sky. nothing like it. wow truely amazing.
so chilled out, played some cards, shit head with the french. how ironic !!! and yesi was not shit head and they were, lol.
so i was the last one to go to bed, no matter when i get up i can't sleep till at least midnight. everyone else got to sleep about 10-11pm. so i had my ipod. and had a little dance to myself.
went to bed, have to get up at 5am tomorrow so we can see the sunrise over ayers rock.
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