Kings Canyon

RB -- Its quite a bit further to KC from Uluru than I thought, but a good drive and road pretty good.  I'm still amazed at how much scrub exists, not the barren desert I was expecting.  The Desert Oak  scrub is really beautiful.

Kings Canyon resort was Ok but the Caravan Park expensive and Diesel was the most expensive we have had to pay, $2.19 per litre.  We were quite tired after our hiking so  got a pizza for tea,  Small size cost $19.  Not sure we will be moving here in a hurry!

KC was really good,  Its quite a steep walk up the  to the top, but something you have to do.  At least they have put rock steps into place.  We did the rim walk first which is a 6 km walk around the top of the Canyon.  We were told by some we met at the beginning that it would take up to 5 hours to do, and as we didn't have 5 hours we moved along steadily, but didn't rush, and did it in 2.5 hours. It was amazing, see pics below, we then did the creek walk into the Gorge which was an easy 2 km?

Got a new bird for us as well, in the caravan park behind the reception area we saw a Painted Finch, just the one and only for about 20 secs.

Around the top the area is covered in weathered dome shaped rock, similar to the rock in the Bungle Bungle NP.

 Almost stepped on this one, didn't want to move from his sunny spot, but I guess they are pretty used to tourists walking through their living room?