When you need to you can get around Australia pretty quickly, the orginal plan was that right now I would still be in Sydney for the next couple of weeks before considering moving. however because of the now quite critical money issue in the last four days i've gone from Sydney to Alice Springs, camped in the outback, walked Uluru and Kata Tuja and quite literally followed in Guy Pearce's footsteps and climed Kings Canyon. Got back yesterday and I'm now at Alice Springs airport with a delayed flight and a couple of hours to kill. I've not had a decent nights sleep in the last 4 nights and I'm so tired I could fall asleep anywhere right now. But the last three days hav
e all in all been amazing, I learnt that I am not a nature person and the whole going bush thing is not my kind of thing! Climbing Kings Canyon is physically one of the hardest things ever and thats just getting up heart attack hill, then you have to get around the rest but when you actually do it, when you get back down and see how far you've come is amazing.
That's one of the best things about doing that with a group, if I'd attempted it on my own, I know I would have taken one look at that hill and turned around again but when half of your group run at it you can't be the one staying at the bottom. The highlight of that trip was of course the Felicia moments, we climbed through the crack they did and standing in the opening all I was thinking was that Guy Pearce was here! Uluru and K
ata Tuja are amazing, walking around and hearing all the stories and seeing the culture is something very special and as many pictures as you see of Uluru when you first see it for real it's just something else.
My Felicia themed weekend continued last night when our group went out to a bar in Alice for dinner and drinks, the nightlife in Alice Springs isn't exactly alive and the bar closed at 12:30 and there is nowhere else to get alcohol except for the casino. I wasn't even interested in an after session I would have been happy to go and sleep but as soon as the casino got mentioned there was no choice. So I ended up in THE Lassiters Casino, sitting by what, if only the story was true, the actual stage! I tried to find the casino on my first day in Alice but ended up getting confused and walking through a grassy area full of jumping crickets so it had to be done!
So all in all this weekend has been a good one, very different, and one I'll probably never do again so for that it's been amazing. I'm now off to recover in Adelaide and then my new plan is to stick with the Felicia theme and go to Sydney via Broken Hill and stay in the Palace Hotel. I was looking on the internet yesterday and it seems to be 40 dollars for a room so if I can get from Adelaide to Broken Hill in a couple of days at a cheap price I'll be there with bells on!
e all in all been amazing, I learnt that I am not a nature person and the whole going bush thing is not my kind of thing! Climbing Kings Canyon is physically one of the hardest things ever and thats just getting up heart attack hill, then you have to get around the rest but when you actually do it, when you get back down and see how far you've come is amazing.That's one of the best things about doing that with a group, if I'd attempted it on my own, I know I would have taken one look at that hill and turned around again but when half of your group run at it you can't be the one staying at the bottom. The highlight of that trip was of course the Felicia moments, we climbed through the crack they did and standing in the opening all I was thinking was that Guy Pearce was here! Uluru and K
ata Tuja are amazing, walking around and hearing all the stories and seeing the culture is something very special and as many pictures as you see of Uluru when you first see it for real it's just something else.My Felicia themed weekend continued last night when our group went out to a bar in Alice for dinner and drinks, the nightlife in Alice Springs isn't exactly alive and the bar closed at 12:30 and there is nowhere else to get alcohol except for the casino. I wasn't even interested in an after session I would have been happy to go and sleep but as soon as the casino got mentioned there was no choice. So I ended up in THE Lassiters Casino, sitting by what, if only the story was true, the actual stage! I tried to find the casino on my first day in Alice but ended up getting confused and walking through a grassy area full of jumping crickets so it had to be done!
So all in all this weekend has been a good one, very different, and one I'll probably never do again so for that it's been amazing. I'm now off to recover in Adelaide and then my new plan is to stick with the Felicia theme and go to Sydney via Broken Hill and stay in the Palace Hotel. I was looking on the internet yesterday and it seems to be 40 dollars for a room so if I can get from Adelaide to Broken Hill in a couple of days at a cheap price I'll be there with bells on!
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