After the really bizarre town of Coober Pedy, we head for something completely different: Uluru.
In stead of taking from the earth, people have been living here for hundreds of years with the earth. Beautiful landscape surrounds us and of course the nice big solid red rock of Uluru. We arrive around 4 pm at Uluru and decide to watch the sunset. We already saw some nice sunsets but this one is really special. The rock changes colour every 15 min, as are the surroundings. Birds are singing and a kind of magical atmpshere arrives. To top things off, the moment the sun sets, the full moon rises right above the middle of Uluru. We already had packed our camera but are really fast at getting it out again! Uluru in silver lighting again very beautiful!

The next day we do a part of the walk around Kata Tjuta, the Olgas. Totally different, but also magical. We see some wild parrots and giant butterflies, and there is water pretty much everywhere. And those flowers! In the afternoon, we walk around Uluru and visit the Aboriginal Cultural Centre. The stories about their country and their history make us look at Uluru and Kata Tjuta differently. Never too old to learn, ey?

It's late in the afternoon, but we decide to drive some 200 km, hoping to make it just in time before darkness (you definetely do not want to be driving after dark because of the kangaroos and other wildlife that's crossing!!). Again, magical moments. As soon as the sun sets, the moon rises as a giant yellow ball, right in front of us, lighting up the way before us and kind of pointing us in the right direction. Man, do we live on a magnificent earth! We sleep at a camping site at a roadhouse on the Stuart Highway and head for Alice Springs the next day.

We visit The School of the Air. Alice Springs had the first SotA, which was opened in the 50-ies, and which used the broadcasting network of the Flying Doctors. We saw an 8th grade math lesson being broadcasted (really cool) and students from all over the region joined the lesson through blogs and chat. Kids from as far away as 1000 km joined in from their dad's cattlestation or wildlife ranger house. The only thing missing in the curriculum was some kind of foreign language learning but that can be fixed when I open an Elos branch in Australia :) !!!!!!

Cheerio and take care!