The Rock - Uluru

Wow this place has changed in 10 years. The township of Yulara is a bustling tourist community with shops, restaurants, bars, banks and everything you need at your door step. You can move around town with a free courtesy bus. So many school kids – and we went to boring Canberra in our final school years.

Time to get up, it’s 5.30am! Why Dad? We are off to see the rock (Uluru) at sunrise. But I can’t see – can I take my binoculars Dad?

As we waited with the crowds, the kids asked how does the rock change colour? Good question – just wait and see. The American tourists loved the kids and seem to think Matt is cute. Well they didn’t see him later when we did the base walk – a different story as he would not move and all the tourists heard him a mile away! Let’s give him a spear to catch a kangaroo like the aboriginals hunted – now that worked!

Hayley & Amy enjoyed the walk and were fascinated at how the aboriginals lived at the Rock and shared the stories with their children so many hundreds of years ago.

No climbing the rock today – over 36 degrees & it’s shut. After our base walk and the culture centre experience, it’s time to hit the pool.