Day 18 – 10/4/2011 Yulara – Curtin Springs
As I sit down to write tonight we are enjoying our first open fire, well the kids are enjoying it Pete and I are saying “No you can’t wave the stick like that when it is on fire” “be careful you’ll hit someone” “Come back you can’t walk around with a stick that is on fire!!!” Anyway they are having fun!!
Today we went for our final walk in the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, we went back to Kata Tjuta and did the Walpa Gorge Walk, this was a short walk only 2.6km’s. What was memorable about the walk besides the fabulous views, the stunning rock formations and the presence of water was oh my gosh it was so cold.
It was such a drastic change in temperature that we were caught unprepared. When we got out of the car is was a cool 17 degrees, the temperature had dropped 5 degrees from when we left the camp ground and unfortunately we thought the day would get warmer not colder so we were completely unprepared. Oh well the only way to combat the cold was to walk briskly!!! The kids really enjoyed the walk and soon discovered that when walking in gorges their voices echoed!!! Well you can imagine how much yelling they did to each other!!! They also discovered tadpoles in the water holes and spent ages just trying to catch the tadpoles!!
Of course the desire climb the rocks was again overwhelming for some so Pete and Callum took off trying to climb up to the cave, they were surprised about how steep the climb was and didnt make it to the cave!! but they certainly had fun trying!!
Only a short drive today to Curtin Springs, a free camp about 80kms from Yulara. We set up camp just after lunch but it was just impossible to sit outside because of the flies, they had come in force to welcome us to Curtin Springs. So what is a girl to do when she doesn’t want to read, she has played heaps of board games and a nana nap is out of the question??? I know it was time for the annual clean of the caravan windows!!! No I haven’t lost the plot the windows were just really dirty!! Now we could enjoy the fabulous sunset from inside the van!!!.
Off to Kings Canyon tomorrow.
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