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| Some 150km on a this time dry Great Central Road and we left Western Australia just before Docker River, about 2200km after we left Perth. Another 150km later we arrived at the border to the Uluru - Katja Tujas National Park where we settled down for the night just outside the park. Bernhard and I decided to go for the quick ride and give the Olgas a first visit (we mainly had in mind that someone could sell us a beer, last one was in Carnegie). What a difference! We had lived in the outback for two weeks by then and found us instantly sourounded by clean cloth wearing tourists. I think we were more looking (laughing) at the tourists than at the Olgas :-) Anyway, there was no beer but one of the bus drivers decided to take pity on us and gave us some of the champagne the tourists were feeded with (The Olgas Sunset Champagne Tour, 350$/2 days from Alice). |
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Welcome to NT
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Thaks to the Bus Driver
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The Olgas
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Alice Springs - New Plans |
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Some time's gone since the last entry. Easy, not a lot happend but a lot was decided... Lets start where I ended: The day after we reached the Olgas we gave them another quick visit (belive it or not, I went for a 6km walk :) and were off for the Uluru, former Ayers Rock. That was somehow my main target for all of the trip and all planing done in CH was ending by reaching it. I can tell you this damn rock IS impresive. You see it from quite a distance when coming from west and it's getting bigger and bigger the nearer you come. I cannot say more than IT IS BIG but there is a lot more about it which I cannot explain. Anyway, we sourounded the rock on our bikes and decided to leave for Yulara and return the next day to souround it by walking.
Everything went different than expected. First of all Yulara was an absolute disappointment. I expected a Aboriginal Comunity dealing somehow with the masses of tourists. Wrong. Yulara is a/one company. All of this quite big holiday resort is own by one company and if you're eg on the camp ground then you're allowed to enter eg the bar at the xy hotel. Fuck, not what I want to go for. And what happend on Saturday morning, awakeing with some headache in Bernhards tent (we shared his tent for some time couse it was easier to build up only one at night) after spending the night by myself in one of the bars there, was that I decided to leave (or maybe the Uluru told me to leave?). The others were already out so I left a note, sat on the bike and headed for Alice Springs imediately without looking back.
For all those who still think Alice Springs is next to Uluru: You're wrong. It's a 5h or 450km ride through the outback over the Lasetter and the Stuard Highway.
I'm now in Alice for nearly a week. I spend the time by working quite a lot and finaly I was able to finish all pending work. Else I was hanging around, reading a few books, met some good people and made new plans. Instead of heading north-east and sourounding the continent this way I will head first east and then, once reached the Pacific Ocean, head south for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. This is only logical couse I have some less time than David and Co and I would have to leave them sooner or later anyway. This way the journey is easier and lot less dangerous (road conditions in the urban areas of eastern Oz). I also send my laptop back to Perth, mainly to get rid of its weight. This explains why there are no pix in the last messages, thought I did copy them on a CDR this damn thing is broken now. Good luck they're not lost but I just wont be able to publish them before beeing back in Perth.
And I have a new main plan: To visit all 7 states of Australia, which means: Western Australia, Northern Terretories, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and finaly back to WA. The only weak point is Tasmania and my finances (don't know how much the ferry is). Would be a total os 12'000km if I decide to go for the Nullarbor Plain as well. |
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Alice - Center of the World
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Uluru
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Welcome to Alice
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By myself |
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We, that means for the last time David, Isabel, Bernhard and I, left Alice springs this morning at about 9:30am. 30 Mins after leaving we reached the Tropic Of Capricorn (German: Suedlicher Wendekreis) and another hour later we reached the junction between Sandover Highway, David & Co target, and the Plenty Highway, my target. Another 15 mins later I was on my own, heading east for the Pacific Ocean, some 2000km in front of me.
At this point I want to say Thanks to you folks, David, Isabel and Bernhard. I think we had an almost good time and I wouldn't have been able to do the pists in WA without you. Thanks once more and enjoy your time in the northern parts of Oz. Don't forget to send me the pix and Bernhard: DON'T PISS ON THE FENCE and don't miss Meekatharra-Just-Fucked on your way back!
The Plenty Highway was something between easy and some sand and I had no biger problems except tiredness after 577km of which nearly 450km had been on pist today. Now I'm 5km in front of the Queensland border, state number 3 on my list... |
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Tobermorey
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Still in NT...
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Saying Goodbye
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