about it and considered it to be a lesson in Australian sunsets - it doesn’t matter what the sky looks like, wait until the true moment of sunset before you decide if there is a sunset. It was still an amazing experience and we were keeping everything crossed that tomorrow’s skies would produce the same kind of look, as we would have our wheels and be at Sunset Point to watch the sunset unfold across Uluru. After this uplifting experience we headed back to camp, cooked and played a few games of cards and Yahtzee before heading off to bed quite early as we were pretty tired due to us getting up around 5.30 am!!!

When we woke and looked out the skies weren’t the kind of sky blue we were expecting but more of a Manchester grey! You could feel damp in the air and we were wondering whether we were in for a cloudy old day. We couldn’t believe it, we were in the desert, we had been told on the

bus that we needed to drink at least 7 or 8 litres of water per day due to being in the heat of the desert. Oh yeah, drink 7 or 8 litres a day, I don’t think so, more like, dig out my fleece cause it was cold!!! We had breakfast then headed round to the car hire place, went into the office sorted everything out, got the keys took one step out of the door and the heavens opened!!! I wonder how many people can say that they have been to Uluru and had to dig out their raincoat!!! Either we are incredibly lucky - reducing our likelihood of getting sunstroke or just dam unlucky and seeing Uluru through a rainy haze!!!

To brighten things up we were confronted with a brand new 4 wheel drive Kia jeep - this was going to be our bargain car for the day!!! Rob was overjoyed and quite firmly requested that he drove first!!! I have to say I used to moan like hell about 4 wheel drive jeeps, but it was