My last day at Uluru was dedicated to walking around the whole base of the rock. It took roughly 3.5 hours with many photo pauses and one potty break out in the brush! Ps. my first time ever peeing out in 'nature', and hopefully my last! I did have a pretty good view though of Uluru hahaha. Anyone in the group had the opportunity to climb the rock at this point but from everything I had heard from our guide and locals, it was extremely disrespectful to the Aboriginal people and with everyone climbing it, the rock was beginning to show damage and breakdown, plus it is extremely steep and dangerous. No thank you! I could take just as good of photos from the ground without being rude or risking getting hurt. It was a great walk and you can then understand and tell how massive it truly is. Very cool!!
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| Up at 5am for this photo! But worth it :) |
Total driving time for today: roughly 7 hours. Yuck!
Next stop along the journey was crossing over from the Northern Territory state into South Australia. It was really nice to take a back at this boarder crossing and I took some great photos with a special appearance from an Aussie flag!
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| Where Adelaide is located. |
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| Where the Outback is located. |
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| Lucy, Katy, Jessica & Me! |
That night we were staying in a place called Coober Pedy, which is the Opal capital of the World. People there eat, sleep, and work around finding opals and in the mines. Also, since it gets so very, very hot there in the summer and stays pretty hot year round, almost all the houses are built completely underground. We were able to tour a house and it was pretty strange. Good for sleeping if you like it pitch black. The only way out was through the front door and where some windows were also located. The houses had everything else like normal, just poor mobile reception! You had to go outside to chat or text. That would take some getting used to. It was a completely unique way of life that the people in this town live and very eye opening. I think that it is safe to say I am not too fond of living underground. While in Coober Pedy, the group also went to a kangaroo rescue house where this older couple take care of injured or sick kangaroo's either joeys or adults. They were very tame and friendly and followed the owner around like any other cat or dog. They also had a little joey which I was lucky enough to hold. So incredibly cute I wanted to take him home with me! Guess what his favorite food is... pizza! haha Cute! I was in animal heaven!
I do have photos of me holding the baby kangaroo but they weren't on my camera so I haven't saved them properly to my computer yet to upload into here! But, they are really cute! :)
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| My underground living quarters for the night! |
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| Just a normal day working at the mine! |
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