This morning I was determined to see Uluru at sunset, still a bit of cloud cover and a few drops of rain but I was awake at 4am so I was going with or without everyone. We decided the whole family should come for a look as we wouldn't be back for a while, so we piled them all in the car at about 5:15am. All roads lead to the rock, when we get out there there are people everywhere. At the first viewing area there were buses galore, we continued around to the other side where the sun was coming up. Well, I have never seen so many people at that hour of the day. Half of Japan was there all armed with at least one camera each and there was also half of Europe and a bit of America, I think we might have been the only Aussies there, the rest of them were still camped up in their beds!!!! Anyway, it was well worth it. A truly spectactular site as the sun came over the horizon, Uluru is just amazing really, I think because there is nothing else around it, apart from shrub, it just looks like someone has plonked this thing in the middle of nowhere, it just doesn't look real.
Anyway, after this, we went back to our "luxury accommodation" and packed up again ready to jump on the plane. Our bags are full so repacking is a fun task!!!
We had a short flight to Alice Springs were we swapped planes from a 717 to a 737, much to the joy of the family as the smaller planes don't have headphones. The flight to Melbourne was 2hours and 40 minutes and we arrived to a blustering wind and a very warm day.
We have booked an apartment in Docklands as it is very hard to find a hotel that caters for 5, the apartments cost the same and they are much nicer, so today we go from rags to riches. We have a beautiful 2 bed 2 bath apartment on the 14th floor of the water front overlooking Ethihad and the city. It is quite luxurious and very conveniently located with the free city circle tram just on our door step. This will be our break after harvest, before we truly hit the road again in the caravan
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