Up at 5am in the dark for a sunrise at Uluru. The usual way to view the sunrise at Uluru is to have the sun rise at your back and watch as it illuminates the rock. Our guide was of the opinion that we should watch it from the point where the sun came up from behind Uluru and we could see the sun rise up from behind the rock, silhoueting the rock against the glowing sky. I think this worked well. See what you think from the pictures. It was a wonderful expe...

"G'Day Mates!!", as we say down under. Alice Springs was a bit of a surprise. We didn't like it much at first. There was a bit of an odd atmosphere with lots of very poor aboriginal people wandering around or hanging out in groups. Most of them looked a bit ill in an east end of Glasgow sort of way. We were warned not to be out at night on our own and with lots of police around it felt slightly menacing. We visited the Flying Doctor Museum which was excelle...