The Big Red Rock

There is little doubt - Uluru (Ayer's Rock) is a long way from anywhere! We struck the road early to cover the 730km in good time and make it to our camp before nightfall. I was actually suprised how well we went as we made it there by mid-afternoon - time for a play and swim in the campground pool before heading out to the rock. We were informed by the tourist office that sunset was around 6:30 pm so we needed to make tracks around 6 pm to check it out. As instructed we headed out and were in place at the sunset parking lot with time to spare - unfortunately, the clouds and sun failed to cooperate and we ended up calling it a night early. It wasn't a total loss though as the rock is impressive even without the right light shining upon it. All the pictures depict it as this seemingly rectangular shaped beast with rounded or weathered ends but it is actually more of a triangular-shaped formation well wrinkled and crevassed with age. We headed back to camp and stopped at the Brough Buffet located at the Outback Pioneer Hotel just outside the campsite. The kids were in heaven  (they love buffets) and had their choice of camel, crocodile, kangaroo and a few other tempting tastes. Kids ate for free so all was good and we feasted into the dark. At the end of it all we tucked into our cosy tent and had an uneventful night until...