Day 23 Yulara to Kings Canyon

11 June

We had a good trip up from Yulara.  This is sand dune country out here. Not the sand dunes you see in movies about the Sahara, but sand dunes that support a lot of vegetation, but sand dunes nevertheless.  Once we turned north onto the road to KC we began crossing the dunes rather than driving along them. This meant a lot of up and down travel and a curvy road.

This is also dingo country.  We saw our first dingo not long after we turned onto the KC road.  We saw our second when we stopped for some morning tea.  It was a young female who was keen to see what her chances were of getting some food from the people who had stopped for a rest.  While we were there everyone did the right thing and resisted the temptation to give her something.

As we got closer to KC the countryside changed again.  We noticed a long, low escarpment  looming up on our right.   It got larger and larger as we got closer to KC.  This is the sandstone escarpment country where the canyon is located.

The caravan park and camping ground is smaller than the one at Yulara.  However, it is much more attractive with plenty of shade trees and a spectacular view, especially at sunset, of the escarpment.

We are very isolated out here.  There is no town, just the caravan park and campground, or Resort to give it its proper title.  It has a service station and a bistro where you can get café type meals.  There is also a bar and a place that does barbeques.

When I say isolated, I really mean isolated.  There is no mobile phone service here, not even a Telstra service.  There is just one  analogue TV channel with a very poor picture. There  is an internet service of sorts that provides 200 mb per week  for a fee and which only works in the bar. That is where I am right now trying to send this post and deal with a few emails.  The sacrifices I have to  make!

Unfortunately, this means that I won’t be able to attach photos while we  are here.  However, I will stockpile a few and when we get to civilization at Alice Springs, I will edit the KC posts and add the photos at that time.

Our long-anticipated photo of Mt Connor, quite often confused with Uluru because it is the first mountain you see on the road down to Yulara

Our morning break on the way down to Yulara. The trees are all desert oaks

This is dingo country.  I think this little lady is one of last year's pups already grown up and fending for herself.  She was also not above scrounging for a meal at the above rest stop.

The view from our caravan site.  It doesn't get much better than that.