Bit of a nightmare day, after a slow morning we had to leave our cabin and check out at midday. Our flight was at 1530 so were told the bus would pick us up at 1330 but to be there at 1315 incase it was early. Wasnt really enough time to go anywhere or do anything so Nick went to the sand dunes to get some red sand for our journal and i waited at the bus stop. At 1400 i went back to reception to say the bus hadnt shown, they rung the airport and said that our fl...

Were up mega early today, 4am. The plan had been to get an early night but no such luck. Neither of us could sleep, when the alarm went at 4 we pulled on some clothes and made a run for the toilet block before grabbing our stuff and jumping into our ultra cool hire car and driving out to Uluru. We were one of the first in the queue of cars at the gate of the National Park. Was weird driving throught the desert in complete darkness. The sunrise spot is right rou...

Woke up to no rain which was a good sign but when walking to the toilet block realised it was still very overcast and could rain soon. Boo. With tours limited due to the weather we begun to think of other ways that we could go to see Uluru as we didn't pay all this money to come here and not see it! We went to the tourist info centre and it was like a museum of all the local animals, stuffed versions, including a stuffed Kangaroo and spiders, massive spiders! B...

We arranged for one of the shuttle bus services to pick us up at 8am to get to Perth Airport for our flight to Ayers Rock. The bus took forever as we were the first pick up so had to stop at loads of other hostels and hotels. Our plane was tiny but still a Qantas - smallest plane either of us have ever been on. Flight took about 2 and a half hours. Before landing they announced it was raining!!!!! Hardly ever rains in the bloody outback and now we're going the ...