Perth to Ayer's Rock; Monday, October 30

Today was our first Australian domestic flight, everything went smoothly, just thousands of Km of red sandy desert and salt flats and what I figure was an open pit mine.

Our car is a Nissan Expolrer AWD and is very comfortable. We booked on the "Sounds of Silence" Group tour which took us to the top of a dune in the desert to watch the sunset over Ayers Rock (also called Uluru). Unfortunately it was mostly cloudy so the rock was not that spectacular.

But the "Olgas" (also called Kata Tjuta) a group of massive rocks rising abot 500 metres above the desert floor were, as the setting sun caught a rain storm behind them.

We had music played on a digirido to accompany us.

We then had dinner under the sky and after that observed the stars despite a partially cloudy sky and a moon directly overhead. An absolutely fabulous evening.