Round Australia By Motorbike: The Rock

950km to see a rock, but not just any rock, Uluru, or Ayers Rock as most of us know it as. It is an impressive rock and you can see it for 50km before you get there. It rises 348 metres from the desert and has a girth of 9.4km. The rock, Uluru is sacred to to the Anangu Aboriginal people.

We broke again one of our cardinal rules, actually twice today. We left Alice Springs in the dark and arrived back in the dark. But was able to get a sunrise photo looking back toward Alice springs. Didn't stay at Uluru to get a sunset photo so the one looking back to Alice Springs is pretty good. It is really strange, the Aboriginal people of Uluru believe that you should not climb Uluru, because it is important to them and they try to dissuade people from climbing but at the same time not actually stopping them.

On our ride out their there was also another impressive rock or mountain called Mt Connor which rises up from the dessert, but it is on private land and I believe you can go on a tour on the station to visit this one, where everyone just congregates to Uluru. At the lookout to Mt Connor there are also salt lakes which are dry at the moment but full of water during the wet.

There are some other stunning rocks called The Olgas, didn't have time to go there but they look impressive from where we were. There are 36 rounded domes and the tallest is 200 metres taller than Uluru.

As I said we arrived back in Alice Springs in the dark and not knowing the town too well turned off the mainjroad to early to find our Motel. Think we did a tour through the dark side of town then to the centre and then into a street that is band from going into. Ha, stopped by the cops on bikes, wondering what we were doing. They are obviously cruising around town on their Suzuki RMX250,s with their guns, looking for problems. Well we got a police escort back to our Motel.