Jumping out of our swags around 4:45am, we wolfed down breakfast & headed to Uluru (Ayers Rock for you less educated folk) for sunrise. Unfortunately the spot we watched it from meant that the sun rose behind us, with us looking at Uluru. So although it looked good as the rock gradually became more red/orange, I would have preferred to have been the otherside to see it rise behind the rock Lion King style!! After the sun had fully risen, we headed off on o...

Without any time to catch our breath, we started our 2 day tour of Uluru & Central Australia. This time our driver was called Bender, apparently because he had a fender bender with the bus on his 2nd day on the job (reassuring) & not because he was gay! A few of the girls from the last tour, including our Yorkshire stalkers, were on this one as well. The rest of the group we had to meet by doing Bender's version of speed dating, in which you moved arou...

Another long travel day lay ahead of us & it was also our final day of the tour. Our first stop of the day was at Devils Marbles. Many moons ago a volcano erupted & spewed out lots of rocks, which over time have eroded & formed spherical rocks. We strolled around & climbed over several of the rocks & took some cool photos. Your options are fairly limited when walking around some large stones!! Next we headed to Wycliffe Wells, which is the se...

St. Patrick's Day (or St. Paula's day for Miss Etherington) usually means lots of Guiness for us two. However, being stuck in the a******* of nowhere raised a few problems in doing this. Our first stop of the day was Larrimah. Thankfully one of the few buildings in this exceptionally small settlement was the Pink Panther Pub. So despite the fact it was only 9:30am, we cracked open our first beer of the day, served to us by a big scary biker dude who opened ou...

Rather than giving ourselves a lie-in, we had booked to start our Red Rocket tour from Darwin to Alice Springs that morning. So around 6am we boarded our bus & met another new group of folk. Unfortunately for the two Yorkshire lasses, they had booked on the same tour, so they had unwittedly become our new tour buddies. Poor them! We met our new driver called 'Doc' (he looked like a younger version of Christopher Lloyd in 'Back to the Future') who would be dri...