We awoke in the middle of the night to our neighbour’s car door slamming about 100 times. As I started to come to, I realised it was morning and they were probably heading out to see the sunrise over Uluru. We had planned to do this the following morning but as we were already awake and thought we should make and effort to go see it. We missed the sunrise, but we did the 9km walk around the base of the rock.

The climb was open in the morning. Mike got all excited and put on his boots ready for the climb. Then we got to the base and he realised how steep it was and he is scared of heights. He decided not to go. I thought about it but thought the base walk would be better. Later in the day the climb was closed to wind.

Back at camp we bought a couple of head nets as the flies are starting to get to us. We blobbed out for the rest of the day and went and saw the sunset at the Olga’s. Again it was a bit too cloudy for the brilliant red colour, but was still very impressive.

Dinner we had pork with hokkien noodles and a teriyaki sauce. I don’t think we could eat better if we ate out.

Some aboriginal art: