We woke up at 5:15am in order to get on the road by 5:45. We have a long day of driving ahead of us! We got to Devil's Marbles at 6:45 and stopped for a quick photo-op while the sun came up. Devil's Marbles are huge round boulders spread throughout a large flat valley.
An hour later we had a quick stop at Wycliff Well, UFO Centre of Australia. This is the place where they've had the most UFO sightings in the southern hemisphere. The town is basically a gas station with newspaper clippings about the various sightings. Unfortunately the only green men we saw were cardboard cutouts.
Just before Alice Springs, we passed the Tropic of Capricorn.
We got to Alice Springs around noon. This is a huge city with a whopping population of 26,000. "Wow, that's bigger than Dundas!" says Craig. We stopped for gas, lunch, and some super tasty hazelnut and chocolate Drumsticks.
We got to Uluru near 5pm and bought some highly recommended fly nets as we checked in to our campsite. We then drove to the sunset car park and watched the sunset at Uluru. There weren't any clouds in the sky so the sunset itself wasn't so great, but Uluru shone red for a while which was neat to watch. The flies were going mental so we were happy we had fly nets. Should have bought those a week ago!
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