G'day Canada: Day 8 - Dalhousie to Uluru

Day 8 - Woke up to the sounds of dingos howling. We then packed up drove to Mount Dare another famous outback pub and bought petrol for $1.85. Mt. Dare is the most northern outback pub in Australia.

Next we drove into Northern Territory and past the aboriginal town of Finke towards Lambert Centre, the geographical centre of mainland Australia. After taking photos we head on towards Kulgara Roadhouse and filled up on slightly cheaper petrol and jump on the Stuart Highway.The Stuart had no set speed limit up until the last couple years. The speed limit now is 130k/h.

We passed Mt. Conner also known as Attila and Artilla. It is the third of the great rock formations of the Central Australian desert, 100 kms east of Uluru and on the western fringe of a huge, working cattle station, Curtin Springs. From the road many travellers confuse Mt. Conner for Uluru (Ayres Rock).

We stopped at the petrol station in Curtain Springs for supplies and were welcomed by a curious Emu.We then continued on to Uluru. We bought park passes to visit Uluru (Ayres Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) and the two of us drove around and took pictures of the sunset while Larry and Mick set up camp at the Ayers Rock Resort.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in two stages, initially for its outstanding universal natural values and then for its outstanding universal cultural values. Uluru is a huge, rounded, red sandstone monolith 9.4 kilometres in circumference rising to a height of over 340 metres above the plain.