Travel Tales of 2

 Well Perth is turning out to be the same old same old for us. we come we stay we dont remember much.
 

Met up with Anto, Sarah and Ann and the gang from her house and this was the bank holiday weekend so we hit a good time to be out and about. Just so to do something different we went to Cohunu Animal Santurary. The main reason we went there was the Koalas. The girls got to hug a koala but the koala was more interested in checking them out. bloody men. So the girls got all emotional with that.
 

We fed kangaroos and had good fun with the talking birds and one of the birds took a liking to Sinead and took a bite of her shoulder. (Rather her than me.)
It was the cars last spin. Just as well cause the cops had started to develop a habit of stopping US and telling us WE were going to fast or looking for stowaways or whatever. Always the same, Do you know you have no trends on your tyres?? Were you drinking?……..No and No. Ill not give you a ticket this time - Good old Irish license. Its to much paper work for them and they probably felt sorry for us.
 

So we headed off to Alice Springs for our 3 day tour of Ayers rock, Kings canyon and the olgas. Ayers Rock being the highlight. The tour was brilliant sleeping in the outback around the campfire and looking at all the stars we could see.  Alot of driving the first day when we headed to Kings Caynon to walk through the gorge and learn a bit about the aboriginal culture. we collected our firewood for the campfire and went into the bush to set up for the night. We cooked all the food over the fire and made dampier (home made bread) and chilli con carny. played a few drinking games before rolling out our swags (which is like sleeping in a sardine can but nice and warm and surprisingly comfortable).
 

Next morning we had to peel ourselves out of our sleeping bags cause it was f’in freezing!!!!! especially as the fire had gone out. So it was back on the bus to make our way to the Olgas (Kata Jutu as the aboriginals call it). Its were the young boys of the local tribe were initiated. Amazing place were we went for a three hour walk to warm us up. Then it was off to the “rock” / Ayers Rock/ Uluru to visit the aboriginal culture centre to learn more about the rock and its significance to the aboriginals.
 

Later we had dinner overlooking Uluru to see it change colours as the sun went down. Then it was back to the campsite (this time in a caravan park nearby) were we had a few beers. This was a late night which didn’t help the fact we were up really early to catch sunrise over Uluru. After breakfast we had the choice of a two hour base walk (a walk around the rock) or to climb the rock. We decided to climb the rock which wasn’t as easy a decision as you might think for us as its a highly spiritual place for the aboriginals. We tried to be as respectful as possible while climbing it and i have to say we really appreciated the views and scenery from up top - I personally never expected it to be so big.
 

Then it was back to Alice Springs were we went for dinner and a few beers before going to bed in a lovely warm dorm room - with heating…..
 

The trip is definately one of my highlights so far learned a lot about aboriginal culture and their way of survival before the “white man” came, they deserve some major respect at being able to survive out here. 
 

S&G