Day 3 - Uluru

Record breaking day with about 600km covered. We started with sunrise in the Breakaways, passed several small villages. In Cadney Homestead we had a classic breakfast from toasts, eggs and sausages. Also met a German guy from Hamburg working as a cashier – interesting choice… Working in a 30-people town…

In 83km we passed Marla – the last stop in South Australia, and in 160km more we entered Northern territory, which is considered to be the real Australia. Landscape didn’t change much, except maybe soil getting more red and temperature getting a bit higher. Actually, we started at +3C in the morning and reached +29C during the day in the Northern territory.

On the way to Uluru we have met two interesting couples. The first one stopped in the same resting area on their very old bus. They were John and Beverly in their 80s traveling for three months on the very north. They do these strolls around Australia for the last 17 years… All on the same old bus!

The second couple was hitch hiking at the Uluru turn – Fred and Leticia from Western France. They took one year break from work and are now traveling around Australia and New Zealand. Fruit picking jobs to earn some money, camping all over the place and hitch hiking, when transportation gets really bad. We gave them a 120km lift, which will hopefully speed up their way to King’s Canyon.

Having dropped the French we missed the sunset at Ayers Rock and had to stay overnight 30km before the sacred aboriginal place. This time with camp fire next two the burnt car… If there is a fire on the news tomorrow, you know where we are… J