WayOutback Tour Begins

Tony, our guide, picked us up at 5:55am on Sunday morning for our 3 day / 2 night outback adventure tour. There were 14 people on the tour from all around the globe including; 2 UK, 5 Germans, 1 Dutch, 2 Japanese, and 2 Taiwanese.

Our first stop on the 5 hour drive to Ayers Rock (Uluru) was at a place where they had Camel rides. For a price of $5 Erin was the first one on a camel for a quick little ride around the area. (There are around 500,000 wild camels in Australia, we saw plenty of wild ones as you will see from pictures on a later day).
We also stopped at Mt Connor to take some pictures, and then headed further West to Uluru. What a sight this place was, it was absolutely amazing to see it in real life. We ended up walking 1/2 way around it in the 38 degree heat and as you can see there were tons of flys so we both sported our fly net masks. We then watched the sunset with (300 other tourists) and then headed to our place of rest for the night.

There was running water, toilets and showers, but our actual camping location was pretty deserted and set back from anything. Our dinner was Kangaroo, vegetables, and rice cooked directly on the fire. Tony also had a Kangaroo tail which was cooked up and both Erin and I tried it (tasted a little like pork or maybe rabbit I thought). We finished dinner, had a beer around the fire with our group and then hopped in our swags (defined as a portable shelter by Wikipedia, but in this case, there was no tent, just a thing to lie on) for a night of sleeping under the beautiful stars.

Our first day of adventure was great and our nights sleep was great as well. No scary animals, lizards, or snakes around the fire, except for the Hopping Mouse which came to visit.