Showing posts with label winter break 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter break 2009. Show all posts

7.20.2009

Central Australia III

My favourite (and last) batch of photos from the camping trip. This was when we went to Uluru, and viewed one of the most beautiful impact of the sunset. On the rock, that is.


Mt. Connor. At first I thought this was Ayers, but the shape just wasn't right. Turns out to be a mountain instead.




Red sand. Definitely looked much redder in reality.



Sunrise at Uluru. One of the reddest moments. I was glad that I could capture it.


The sunset. Various colours of the rock.




One of the parts of the Ayers Rock. It has random holes everywhere. The rock is in reality, smoother than I thought it would be.


Us in one of the 'holes'. Judging from the looks of it, one can imagine how big the rock actually is.


This 'hole' was named Mick Jagger's lips. Pretty self-explanatory.


Surfaces of the rock. This part seemed blacker because water had actually flowed through this part of the rock for many, many, many (x 100000000) years.


As compared to this one..


Kata Tjuta! The domes. My second favourite walk, apart from Kings Canyon. We had to walk for 7.4 km, and the view was simply breathtaking.








This dome reminded me of one particular agar-agar.








The bunk house we stayed in for a night, at Cooper Pedy. An underground mining site.


An underground 'house'.



The beach at Adelaide which was a 5-min walk from our caravan resort. Our bus couldn't start, so we had to wait for the mechanic to come. Took him about 2 hours in total to arrive and fix the bus, before we could set back to Melbourne.



On the way back, popped over to a wildlife park to see something which I never knew existed in this world. Albino kangaroos!!!!! They practically look like giant rats!



I was glad that I managed to survive this camp without any mishaps or whatsoever befalling me or QQ. Now I can finally strike off Central Australia from my list. Within these few years of my stay down under, I plan to at least visit all the states, if possible. Tasmania, next year, maybe?

7.19.2009

Central Australia II

Our first major walk, and also the first look at the massive amount of rocks present in Central Australia. Kings Canyon. Two words. Tiring and beautiful.













7.18.2009

central australia I

Before I get lazy to document this down.. The first 'omg' thing that happened even before the trip was that we conveniently thought 28th June was on Monday. It was only during the briefing when the man mentioned about what time should we meet on Sunday, that it struck us.. OH, WE GOT OUR DAYS MIXED UP.

Sunday - Woke up early, packed up any last minute stuff that was left behind, wore many, many layers, and off we left for uni. Realised there weren't any trams, so we took a cab down. Lack of sleep, obviously, but made for that loss in the bus. More than enough. Saw one of the nicest star-filled sky ever. So, so beautiful, I could gush about it for hours. By the way, this was when we were still in the bus. I woke up, looked out of the window, and saw it.

10 more km to Alice Springs.


Arrived and set up our tents.




Feeding the rock wallabies.


Wild kangaroos at the Telegraph station.




White-aboriginal boys that used to live at the station.




the control room of RFDS.






our first desert sunset.






Somewhere at Ormiston Gorge



love love love jumping shots.


.. And halfway through I got lazy. The next few days to be continued.