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Not sure what he's photographing, but we're waiting for sunset at Uluru.
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... as are a few other people. This is WELL before sunset, at least an hour or more. It quickly became clear why some (like us) were wise enough to come early.
I've built a separate page for the Uluru Sunset pictures
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(next morning) One of my favorite Australian flowers, the bottlebrush. No mystery why it's called that, eh?
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The dining area at Curtain Springs. This was home to the founders of the station for three years.
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Closeup of the Curtain Springs tourist sign, with Lizzie just hanging out.
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Start of the Rainbow Valley road. It's a pretty easy 4x4 road, but the dust ruffles are pretty significant, and there's a few sandy bits.
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Got a chuckle from this sign, though I know what they mean. In the US, "off-road" tends to mean "off the paved roads, onto roads that are 4WD only", so to an American, the sign's suggesting we can't go there, since that's a 4WD road...
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Not-quite-classic photo at Rainbow Valley, since it's not sunset, the traditional time to take pics of this formation. In wetter times, the claypan is a shallow lake.
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View of the Rainbow Valley formation from the side. The flies were pretty bad, I wished I'd found my flynet, as the smelly "rosemary and sandalwood" fly-repellent cream worked great - for about half the walk.
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The claypan is like concrete right now, it's been so dry, but it's apparent this isn't always the case. Who knows how long ago this unknown visitor walked through here?
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Mushroom Rock. A large chunk of the bigger formation, that fell of many, many years ago. There's actually an arch underneath it, not shown in this photo.
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