At the Cultral Centre we walked through this place that told us some old stories and showed us some of the weapons they use. It was really interesting. We walked out into the shop area and looked through all these aboriginal paintings. They were so pretty and Mum wanted to buy one but we didn't end up getting one. We looked through all the souvenirs and looked at the cafés before we walked back to the car. When we were almost at the car there was a dingo walking around it looked like it was watching us. I got a quick good photo of him and then we got in the car and tried not to run over him.
We then made our way to Uluru. When your up close and personal with it, it is massive! I knew it was big but not that big and I knew it even more after we finished the walk. Yup, we did the base walk. It wasn't easy and short it was kinda easy and 12km. Haha no big deal! The walk was fascinating, looking at all the aboriginal art and where their homes were. Along the way there were also some stories they told and we were aloud to take photos of the rock except where it said you couldn't because it was a sacred site. The sacred sites most of them you couldn't even go near because there was things in there that nobody can know. I read on one of the signs that the only way you can know what's in those sacred sites is if you have an aboriginal ancestor with you. Along the way there are different stops you can do to look at stuff like their caves in which the families lived, the elders cave, a waterhole and some paintings. At one stage I was looking at the rock and it had different caves and shadows. I thought that you know it's a giant rock I've seen a lot of caves and shadows, but then we came to a sign facing those caves and shadows and they look like parts of different stories. Like there was the woma snake, and something turning into a man. It was really cool.
When we finished it turnes out we walked 12km in 3 hours. That's pretty good seeing as they say 3and a half - 4 hours to do it. When we got back to the car we sat and watched people walk up the rock. We watched a couple people struggle and I called one man spider-man because he started going sideways instead of towards the chain. We ate lunch in the car and just sat for a bit before we drove over to The Olgas.
At The Olgas we drove into the car park for one of the shortest walks but when we got there we couldn't be bothered. So we drove out and drove into the car park for Vally Of the Winds which is mostly longer but can just do a look out, and again we couldn't be bothered. We saw Tracy though and got out and talked with her for a bit. Jacko and the kids had just gone too the look out so we didn't see them. The Olgas are pretty impressive but they are not what I thought. I thought they were big pillars not big wavy rocks. Oh well.
So we drove back to camp and sat around for a bit until John and Brian came over and strated talking to Dad while mum was boiling water for dinner. John (the group leader) came over soon after and said that we are having after dinner drinks at 7:00pm and also told us what time we're leaving tomorrow. So we ate dinner and then went up for after dinner drinks. All the adults where standing around talking while Tayla, Indi, Kiara, Darcy and I were playing some fighting game. It was me and Rah on the other 3 but then I saw Chris and said that he was automatically on our team so then it was 3 on 3. Darcy can be dangerous and our only weapon was pop top bottles.
Later on Mum, Dad and I went back to our tent and got ready for bed. I had on my thermal top (thank you granny!), pyjama top, jumper, socks, bed socks and pyjama pants. I was very warm. :) Tomorrow we head off to Kings Creek Station and it's also Dads Birthday!
Today's blog was done by Chloe
*interesting fact: The Olgas are nearly 200m taller than Uluru*
the olgars walk is a killer! you would of died hahaha .
ReplyDeletemissing you family, looks like you are having a good time xx