resort affordable, it also didn’t look out of place in an area which is basically semi desert. It was also pleasing to see that they offered a campground. We had been warned on the bus about the problem with flies and how it was advisable to forget what it looked like and wear a fly net over your head!!! After checking in we headed round to our campground and en-route we were beginning to wonder whether our mosquito headnets that we had foolish purchased may in fact come in handy!!! The flies were awful, they were a right pain in the your know where. They are the most persistent things I have come across, not satisfied with just basically mithering the living daylights out of you, they actually try and get in your eyes, ears and up your nose - they were horrid. So the site of our fellow campers in full head-dress didn’t look quite so strange, and there was nothing else for it other than to dig deep into my rucksack and pull out those pesky headnets!!! Either way you were going to look quite silly, you

would either be constantly thrashing your arms about like some deranged maniac or view your world through a dark green fly net the latter was our preferred option!!! They took a bit of getting used to, well I never really got used to mine, I just put up with as it was better than fighting off the flies! Rob was more of a sport and let me take his photo on more than one occasion!!!

After setting up camp and we headed off to check out the shopping area of the resort. The resort is spilt up into about 5 different areas, each area housing a certain type of accommodation, obviously the ones nearest to Uluru were the most expensive, and the views went down accordingly, but even from our little tent if you walked about 10 paces to the right and stood on your tiptoes you could just about see the top of Uluru. We walked to the shops via a lookout and got our first land view of the distant Uluru, a