We had a Sunday breakfast with Baked Beans and Eggs to start the day. Yesterday was our last day here at Yulara and I must say that I enjoyed Uluru more that I thought I would.
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park is the only National Park I have ever been to that comes under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, every other park is the responsibility of the relevant State Government. It wasn't until 1985 that the park was handed back to traditional owners and then only on the condition that they lease it back to the Government for 99 years. However, the major change was that the park is managed by a board of 8 traditional owners (4 male, 4 female) and 4 Government and Parks representatives, so the Anangu people have the majority. The issue of climbing Uluru has been in the news of late and
that's all related to the draft management plan that will close the climb for good - a very good idea in my opinion!We enjoyed our stay at Yulara but the caravan park part of the resort leaves a bit to be desired, in particular the showers which have one of those water saving non-adjustable shower heads which produced a stream of water really close to the wall and right above the taps leaving only 15cm or so to get under it. Getting wet under this shower was rather difficult and made it impossible to comply with the "Save Water" signs around the place. I was certainly glad to get away from those showers.
Being Sunday we had a slow morning and didn't get on the road until after 9am but we didn't have to cover a great distance, just over 300km. First we had to back track as Yulara is a dead end [sealed] road and the only way out was the way we came in. We headed East through Curtain Springs (a road house) and past Mt Conner until we turned North onto the Kings Canyon road and after 67km West again for another 100km until we reached Kings Canyon Resort some 6km past the Kings Canyon turnoff. The caravan part of this resort is quite nice with lots of amenity blocks and some shade. We picked a nice site and parked our caravan, had lunch and then started talking to the neighbours who'd just returned from the "Kings Canyon Rim Walk". We got all the good oil about how exhausting this walk is and that we have to leave early in the morning and finish before the day heats up.
Today we had 30°C and tomorrow will be similar, so we better take their advice and get away early.
In the afternoon a caravan pulled in next to us and we soon discovered the people come from Upper Gundowring, just a few km's out of Wodonga.
At 3pm we went for a short drive to check out Kings Canyon and do the 2km Kings Creek walk which took us along the bottom of Kings Canyon to a viewing platform near the end of the Canyon. We met Bern and Patrizia from Germany and had a nice chat with
them during our walk.Back at the caravan park a lady came along to warn us about the Dingos which frequent the park - they will take any shoes left unattended even if the shoe owner is close by. Earlier today one Dingo had to be chased out of a tent after it opened the zip. Apparently the Dingos can open zips, if the zip is only left half an inch open the Dingo will push its nose in and work the zip upwards until it can get in. The same applies to Caravans - if doors are left open Dingos will get in and really mess up the inside in search of food. It's not just shoes but towels, drink bottles and all sorts of things get taken by Dingos around here. I wonder if Dingos around here also take children, we might leave our outside for the night .......
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