we chilled around the camp for a short while then decided to go for a walk and check out as many lookouts as we could. There were quite a few round the camp so off we trotted. The first one we got to was pretty good and even though you’re a long way away the view over towards Uluru was brilliant. It is just such an amazing thing, a big huge piece of rock basically stuck in the middle of nowhere. I had always thought that it was the only rock for miles around but you could also see the Olgas in the far distance and a few other little formations dotted here and there. After a short stop we carried on and walked for what seemed like ages, and then we came to the second of the lookouts and again sat down and just took in the views. It was here that we did the most foolish of things!!! Being used to how sunsets work in the UK, i.e. when the sky is grey and the sun is nowhere to be seen, the chances of seeing a decent sunset are pretty slim. Hmmm, we had sat around for a short while and it was about an hour

away from sunset with grey cloudy skies and a slight breeze, neither of us thought that any kind of sunset would occur. So we decided to start heading back towards camp, as we’d been walking for a good hour or so and we starting to get hungry. So off we went, I’m not sure how long we had been walking and were back on the flat, as not surprisingly all of the lookouts are on small hills, I turned around and was like “WOW Rob look!!“”. He turned around and I think it was at that moment when we both could have kicked ourselves for moving, as the sky was the most amazingly orangey red and pink, the light was incredible and the sky seemed to glow and reflect its brightness onto the cinnamon coloured earth. It was the most incredible sky I have ever seen, we just got a small glimpse over to Uluru, but we knew that if we started to walk back to the lookout it would have all been over by the time we got back there. It was a shame that we had moved but we didn’t give ourselves too much of a hard time