Monthly Archives: April 2025

As our flight takes us to Cairns, the last stop on the Great Australian Train Trek, I thought it might be interesting to look at how Uluru became Ayers Rock before having its traditional name returned – at least for …

Or perhaps the wisdom of the ages If early to rise is part of the equation that makes a person “healthy, wealthy, and wise”, then our three breakfast times of 06:45, 06:00, and 06:30 the past three mornings would qualify …

Uluru Dreaming Another children’s tale (We are the children of this sacred Mother Land) As one might suspect for a place of such importance, Uluru has many Dreaming stories attached to it. No fewer than 10 ancestral beings play a …

If you have your own car and want to drive from Alice Springs to Uluru you should be able to complete it in about four and a half hours. Our RS itinerary had our coach departing the hotel at 07:00 …

Periodically through this journal I’ve voiced a complaint that many of our RS days were overfilled (or at least I’ve complained in my mind) and, although our day in Alice Springs (Mparntwe in the local Arrernte Language {pronounced M’bun-twa and …