We were up before the sun, watched the sunrise and then headed back into Coober to see the town a bit but all the shops were closed but we did get to see the underground church which was pretty cool. Back on the road driving through the outback everything was green instead of red because of all the rain they’ve had this year so we though we were pretty lucky to see it like that. We hoped to make it to Uluru for the sunset, and after a full day of driving we made it about 3 hours before the sunset so we figured we had better walk around this enormous stone. The track around the rock is just under 10km’s so we figured if we walked fast we could easily do it in about a hour and a half! Well 2 hours later and about 2 liters of sweat because we underestimated our walking speed and the rate of the sun going down we got back to the van and raced to the sunset lookout spot. We got some great pics of Uluru at dusk! It cost 25 dollars per person to get into the park and no one is allowed to camp within the park and if you want to “free camp” they told us to go 25km’s away from the park!!! Yeah right, I just paid you 25 dollars! We are all about the free camping so after the sun was down we just drove out of the front entrance to the park, found a little side road and went to sleep. Well about midnight we get a knock on our window from a ranger telling us we have to move, so we drive down the road about 10 km’s and park beside the other cheap campers in their van.
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