FORTYFIRST DAY – WEDNESDAY 18TH AUGUST
It rained off and on during the night. Got up and watched the sunrise from the campground lookout. There was so much cloud but the sun managed to peek through. We then had breaky and went off to drive around Uluru for the last time. We discovered an area for watching the sunrise which we didn’t know was there before. Even though we were too late for the sunrise it was a good view. You could see both Ulura and Kata at the same time. Ulura still looked awesome. It has been great to see lots of different moods of Uluru. We drove back to the resort to fill up on petrol and then off we travelled east back to Stuart Highway. We stopped at Mount Ebenezer for a snack and there was a pesky emu there. We are not sure if he was a pet one or not but he was free to roam where ever he wanted. He came up to the van and started pecking at the rubber on the door then had a try at the rubber wiper blade. He was pretty big so I just made a bit of a noise and he stopped but stayed there. I took a couple of photos and we kept going. We had lunch at the Eridunda Roadhouse – the T intersection on Stuart Hwy. We then headed south. We had already travelled 250 kms so we didn’t want to go too much further. We travelled another 50 kms or so and Graeme saw some nice wood on the side of the road so we stopped to collect some for firewood. We then realized we had stopped by a dirt track that lead into the mulga scrub. We checked it out and noticed that others had camped here before so we decided it was a good spot to camp and drove in and settled in for the night. It was a red sandy spot with no ouchies and lots of firewood – dead trees fallen over. I had a walk around and discovered lots of little holes in the ground and some very cute little mounds with holes in the middle and leaves stuck around the outside. I wonder what lives in them. As we were sitting by the fire we heard a little scurry noise and saw a very small mouse like creature darting around. We think it might have been a narrow-nosed planigale – we have a book. It was so cute scurrying here and there and then we noticed two of them. We could here little high pitched noises and think they were communicating to one another. We cooked our vegies in the fire and had porterhouse steaks to go with the vegies. This was a pretty good spot considering we accidentally found it.