Honeymoon part XII

The final part of the honeymoon saga.
After spending most of the first day at Uluru it was time to visit the Olgas/Kata Tjuta.
The olgas are a great place and have a reasonably good walk called the valley of the winds which is well worth doing.

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There were even wild flowers.

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The rock was also a nice solid conglomerate unlike the flakey stuff on Uluru, would be quite good for climbing although rather unprotectable short of wacking a few good bolts in.

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Keen tramper.

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Some valley of the winds scenery.

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Honeymoon part XI

The saga continues with more photos of Uluru.

These were hard to get as I had a 70-200 lens on a 1.6x body so that I could only fit half of it in from the sunset viewing location.
Luckily I found a good programme on Linux that makes it easy to join it all together.

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After the rain there was a nice sunset.

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Honeymoon part X

When we finally made it to Uluru it was raining rather heavily which turned out to be a good thind as that way we got to see the waterfalls running down it.

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Honeymoon part IX

Even more pictures of things seen around kings canyon and on the way to Uluru.

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Desert Oak

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Black breasted buzzard

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Mt conner

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Honeymoon part VIII

Even more Kings Canyon since I could not fit it all in the first post.

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Western bowerbird with bower, seen near the garden of eden on the rim walk.

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Spinifex

Honeymoon part VII

Kings canyon was the next destination. It has some great sites but unfortunately like 99% of the outback every second stone is sacred which means the areas that the public are allowed to go are very limited.

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Crater rim walk.

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There were flocks of spinifex pigeons everywhere, quite lovely birds actually.

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Honeymoon part VI

From glen helen we decided to drive down to kings canyon in one day which was quite a drive 6-700 kms or so but with a 130 km/hr speed limit it didn't take to long.

The first stop on the way was Henbury meteorite craters which is an imprssively desolate area which would also be a good place to camp.

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Major mitchell's cockatoo, there were six in one tree.

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Honeymoon part V

On our final day in the west MacDonnell National Park we visited the ochre pits and ormiston gorge.

Firstly another picture from Glen Helen.

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If you strain your eyes you can see the brown falcon on top of the tree.

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Ormiston gorge

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Western bowerbird

Honeymoon part IV

Things around the west macdonell national park.


Paddy melons were quite numerous on the sides of the road as well as in the river beds.


Nearly every night we were in glen helen we had dingos visiting. There were also a few of them wandering around the kings canyon resort.

Honeymoon part III

After we finished the walk we spent a few more days camping at glen helen and doing day trips out from there. On the first day we went to Ellery creek big hole and Serpentine gorge.


The Big Hole.


Serpentine gorge was particularly good for the birds with flocks of zebra and painted finches coming it to drink along with grey headed, brown and white plumed honeyeaters as well as budgies and a western bowerbird.

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Once we got to Glen Helen we were due to start the exciting part of the trip. This was a three day walk over sections 11 and 12 of the Larapinta trail. Sadly we did not have time to do all of the trail.


Mt Sonder was the first part of the walk and it easily used up the best part of a day although it was well worth it.


Catfish that was in redbank gorge.


The scenery was reasonable on the walk.


The flies were pretty much a constant feature apart from the few days when it rained.


On top of Mt Sonder.


Campsite on the second night on the walk.