Friday 16/7/2010 Yulara to Kings Creek Station

(Yulara to Kings Creek Station)
Huge buffet breakfast. Filled the car up, 137 L, ($1.61/L). Left at 0845hrs to Kings Canyon. Jordan and Jack are both asleep. I am reading interesting stats, and info on Uluru and Kata Tjuta on history, geology, environment, flora, fauna, astrology and tourism. The kids will have to read it later.
Uluru is 348m high and 3.6km long. Kata Tjuta has 36 domes and is 546m high.
Yulara is the 4th largest town (population) in NT!
Cool! Little Thorny Devils can drink by standing in puddles. Water travels up their legs by capillary action to the corners of their mouth.
Time to do the King's Canyon rim walk.

The 6km rim walk at Kings Canyon took 2 hrs, 1240hrs to 1440hrs. A lot more water this time. Bad timing though. There were 2 huge tour groups we had to get past. Jordan kept sprouting interesting facts from her earlier reading.

Jack again spotted a dingo on our way to Kings Creek Station, "Dingo Boy". After setting up camp we checked on our breakfast and camel riding booking for 0700hrs tomorow, and also booked in for a helicopter flight, which the kids saved up their own money for.

Col and I had a shower, while Jordan and Jack went and bought an icecream for everyone.
Col changed the fuses in his power box which were all blown by a loose wire in the tyre pressure sensor plug (secondary to the corrugations). He fixed the loose wire and taped it up.
We have a couple of meals left over now, from eating at Norseman pub, and at Sails in the Desert. Tonight we'll have the precooked beef stroganoff and tomorow the tuna mornay. Yum.
I was just downloading and editing todays photos when the computer died. I wish I had a powered site. There is no internet here.
Time to relax with a glass of wine and my Steig Larsson book.