18th January 2009 Had to get up at Sparrow's first cough today as the bus was picking me up at 5:45am!! Eeeeeeeeeeggg! The cute tour guide and driver that picked me up was definitely a bonus though :D Picked up a few more passengers on the way to Uluru so shame I didn't have him all to myself ;D hee hee hee! Several hours driving later, we arrived at a camel farm, where I rode a camel for a few minutes, which is certainly an experience!! I felt so tall rid...

Saturday 17th of January I arrived in Alice Springs. Booked myself accommodation at the Heavitree Gap resort before I left and was pleased to find out in my guidebook that it was a recommended place and that you could feed rock wallabies there! Yay, I thought, thought sounds really fun. I also thought that being a hostel meant that I could meet a few people there, have some sort of social life! Stepped off the plane and found out from some other people the...

Last day in Alice Springs as I flew out to Melbourne early on Saturday morning.Had an easy day today after my 4-day tour.The weather in Alice is soooo hot as well, that I really didn't want to be baking myself outside anymore!I ended up having a nice breakfast in town and then going to the Flying Doctors visitors centre - don't laugh!!I know it seems tame after being in the Red Centre, but it was actually really interesting.Having avidly watched the soap with my ...

Getting up at 6am was like luxury!!We went down to Palm Valley first of all, for a nice morning walk.Palm Valley is the only place where the Red Cabbage Palm grows.Why they called it a Red Cabbage palm is anyones guess because it's as green as a palm should be and it doesn't resemble any sort of cabbage at all let alone a red one!!Apparently early english people named things that reminded them of home, but at least they could have called it a green cabbage palm!!...

Shoved myself out of bed at 5am, urgh. Surely you shouldn't have to do these kinds of things when you're on holiday? It was another scorching hot day and we'd been told that the Kings Canyon walk would be a very long one (about 3.5 hours) and it was also be up and down rocks and all sorts, so I decided to opt out. There was a lovely shady creek walk that you could take instead, which only took about an hour but it meant that I could shuffle along, taking my ti...