Saturday, June 5, 2010

Travels

We walked up this canyon in the rain,
it was not bad at all and the view was great.Image These are part of the Kata Tjuta Mountains
We walked up this canyon
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Kata Tjuta Mountains

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Kata Tjuta Mountains

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The Moon rising over the desert on our night at the
Sounds of Silence dinner and program.

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Signs at Uluru

These are some of the signs around UluruImage
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More Uluru

Sounds of Silence Dinner
Out in the middle of the desert.
This is the buffet, the food was really really good.
I have eaten Emu, Crocodile, Kangaroo,
Barramundi
We watched the sun go down over the desert,
Sat in silence to listen to the sounds of the desert.
Had a star travel lecture through the night sky, saw Saturn and her ring,
the Southern Cross,
and many more wonderful sky things.

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Me riding a Camel, a one hump kind.
There are more then a million camels loose out in the Outback,
the people want to get rid of a lot of them as they
eat all the vegetation and there is not that much out there.
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Some of the weather markings on the side of Uluru
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Elder Doney holding up his pants while we were walking around,
so they didn't fall down around his ankles.

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Our rental car licence plate.

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Uluru

One of the walks around the base of UluruImage A cave along the base of Uluru
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Aboriginal painting

Image One of the walls above a Spring
ImageThere are places we are asked not to photograph,
because they are sacred for the Aboriginals.
We are asked to respect their wished.
It was very easy for us to do it.



Uluru

I LOVE ULURU!
Can you tell I am happy to see it at last!
I jumped for joy when I first saw Uluru from the airplane,
everything I thought it would be.ImageUs and Uluru at sun rise.
Very cold out!
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The sun coming up over the desert to shine on
Uluru

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We are Back from Uluru

What a awesome sight it was, everything I thought it would be!
Now if I could only get the blog to let me post some pictures!
No, it won't, I am so sad! Oh well maybe later tonight!
We flew in last evening, started unpacking, washing and repacking to fly home to LA
(Tuesday Morning June 1, 2010 here) and get in there June 1, 2010 in the early AM.
So much for the international date line. We now get the day back we lost 18 mos ago.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Atherton Tableland

Beautiful peaceful rivers.

Oh! to have one in my yard.

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