Day 7 - Kata Tjuta (The Olga's)

Morning was breaking - a cloudy morning with spectacular results.

The first rays of sunshine on Kata Tjuta in the distance.

We got up at 6am this morning to head out and catch the sunrise over Uluru, along with a couple of hundred others.

The boys weren't too happy to get up that early until the sky turned to pink and The Rock lit up briefly that put a smile on their faces.

Again the clouds won out, still magical to watch and the colour show was worthy of an early rise.

A little ray of sunshine hitting Uluru.

The 3 boys, 2 little ones happier than when we woke them!

Off to The Olgas (Kata Tjuta).

After a leisurely breakfast and saying goodbye
to our fellow Novocastrian's, the Toddy's Tours crew, we headed out to Kata Tjuta.

We stopped off at a lookout along the way.

  

7.4kms didn't seem hard - the rough terrain & loose rocks was.

We started out on the circuit walk, 7.4kms through and around Kata Tjuta.  We knew it was going to be tough going as Toddy's crew had done it the day before, but we were keen to get inside the mighty walls of Kata Tjuta.  So with hydration packs full of water and snacks to keep our energy up along the way we set off.

The scenery was spectacular and well worth the very difficult walk, needless to say it was a quiet trip back to camp with 4 tired hikers in the car.

 

Breath taking view through the Valley of Winds.

Dec & Mitch taking in this amazing place.

 

This is the terrain inside each of the rock formations, doing this walk showed a completely different
side of Kata Tjuta than what you see from the road or look outs.  Made the sore feet well worth it! 

 

Even in such harsh conditions, beauty abounds.

Our happy hiker Dec.

Made it to 2nd Lookout - still smiling, only 5km to go.

Snack break to refuel our bodies.

Mitch leaving his mark.

Those dots are the boys on their way up and out
- they were on their way to the car with or without us - less than 2kms to go!

A dingo stole Dec's shoe and this is what was left.

We got back to camp and everyone ripped off their boots desperate to let our feet breathe, Dec looked around for his 2nd Croc.  It was nowhere to be seen so the boys went off in search of the missing shoe.  

Toddy had warned us this morning that the dingo's liked shoes and had stolen one of Brett's Nike in the night.

This is what he found - looks like we've got to try and buy some thongs for Dec in the resort as we only have pair of boots and a pair of Crocs each.