Two Months in Uluru NT

Hiya all,

Well we have now been in Yulara NT for two months and where has the time gone - we are working a lot but have still managed to have Lauren and Nik for a visit and Tracey and Andrew here for a week as well.

Next visitor will be Jo and John - looking forward to their visit and hope they enjoy this magical place.

Of course you are all welcome to come visit and take in this amazing place.......

Well it is starting to warm up - all of a sudden - this week is in the 30's but not so bad at work - its amazing its heaps cooler outside the van is like an oven!

I have had my first experience with a snake (a dead one).  It was in the carpark at work a little 5 ring brown snake (very rare), now even rarer.....It had a bad headache! Chez picked it up and put it in a bucket and took it to the park rangers office. BRAVE WOMAN!!!!
It was funny on the weekend - Tone and I were on our own on the arvo shift and this Indian family came in to get a well desserved ice cream and there was screams and oohs and not me...
It was a mouse a bit splattered on the floor in front of the cafe counter - NOT A GOOD LOOK AYE!!!
Tone had to do the scrape up and mopping up, then I was over serving at the souvenir counter and I look down and its mate was dead right under my feet.  I had to continue serving the customer with "that" thing under my feet....Oh well I better get tuff being out here in the outback aye!

We have our austar on now so when it is hot we can veg in the van and catch a movie - that will be nice.....

Not much other news this week - only I have a cold back again and have been to the doctor to get drugs as I don't want it to get to my chest again and head down the pnuemonia track again.....

Tone and I are negotiating with work and will be having Mondays and Tuesdays off as weekend which suits us as we find the 6 days straight is quite tiring as we both run all day, which we like but we need also to recoup to take on another week.

SSSSHHHHH.................
I am showing you some pics of our work place but don't tell anyone...............
Love and miss you all

Enjoy the pics

Love

Souvenir Shop

Tone standing at counter - souvenir to left - cafe to right....

Upstairs dining area with view of uluru - will be for sunset dining soooooooonnnn....

Brekky servery area

Looking down at souvenir shop from store room

The Kitchen where the gals and wilson prepare great food....

Back carpark 

The view from upstairs dining room.....

Carotone xo

Kata Tjuta - Amazing Place.....

Hiya all

It was our day off today and we ventured out firstly to Mutitjula (aboriginal community) to fill our gas bottle and it was very different how they live out there...No wonder there are heaps of signs saying do not enter - its a bit of a dump and they want us all t have mutual respect - well it should start with themselves....

We spent 3 hours doing the valley of the winds walk today and it was an amazing place to take time out to soak up the wanders of how and why this formation and its "serenity".

The pics will not really do it justice but hope you enjoy them as we marveled at this place.

Once we arrived back at civilisation we got all the upcoming birthday pressies and cards sent and as we are in the middle of australia - have to get these things done when you can..

And yes the austar dish is still not working even though we have now spent another $100 on a you beaut finder but to no avail so I reckon send it back - too hard - can't be fagged with hassle - oh well see what happens.....

Looking forward to having Jo and John visiting next month and showing off the sights of this amazing place.

\Love and miss you all

Enjoy the pics
Love Carotone

Setting off into the Valley

A rest by the billabong

The colours are amazing

A hidden valley

Being artistic

The sign says "Helicopter Pad No 2"

Aaawh pretty aye................

a cute bird and the made a nice sound too...

AMAZING PLACE

Hiya

On our way home...

xoxo

The Week that Was in Uluru - Tracey and Andrew Visit us!!

Hiya all,

Well we have had a great week here in Uluru, the photos will tell most of the story but I will give you a briefing.......

Both Tone and I had just finished a 7 and 8 day straight stint at work and were really looking forward to a few days off that is for sure.

We were up earlyish on Monday the 15th as it was arrival day for chook and AJ!  So we got some chores done and into town and back to get ready to pick them up.  Boy it was good to see them step off the plane - even though AJ had scared me and got me a good one - saying he had gone to work and was now racing to the train to get to the airport with NO CLOTHES - I believed it until he was actually in the terminal - yeah of little faith - I was a bit devo that he had forgotten he was coming to visit!  But I figured he was a busy boy and anyway they both made it here with all clothes in tact.  Tone and I had been up town to try and get him some clothes at least - lucky we did not go overboard - seen as he had a bag ful!!! LOL LOL....

Well off to Alice Springs so Tone could get some supplies for work and drop some things back to suppliers.  We all had a turn at driving and AJ got pulled up at Mt Ebenezer by the police for a random check - all ok and off we go.
Alice is not a place you would spend a lot of time in but we got supplies and decided to head back to Yulara on Tuesday Arvo instead of Wed morning.  We had got on the road about 2.30pm after the grog shop opened at 2pm and we got some supplies and we were about one hour into the trip south and we stopped for a bush fire which had been burning for already 4 hours.  Lucky we only had to sit for an hour and we headed off again......
Not too happy about the fact that we would now be getting home in the dark - not good to do so around here with camels and cattle wandering around.  The only thing we hit were mice running across in front of us.  But we did see a dead camel and boy it  STUNK!!!!!
Home to get unpacked and cooked the kids favourite meal of tuna voulavants for tea.....
Wednesday and we headed to our work for brekky and tried to get the climb in but too windy.....
Gave AJ and chook the tour of our town and back to the van to get ready for our sounds of silence dinner - FANTASTIC again!!!
Back to work Thursday and AJ and chook had the car so they could do their thing around the area.
They tried to climb the rock but chickened out and so chook came back to the shop and AJ decided to do the base walk but as you will see in the pics he took a wrong turn - lucky his is in training.  Bad chaif and a bit knackered he was last night!!!!

Today was hometine for them - very sad - but a most enjoyable week for all of us!

Oh by the way how could I forget - we have renamed Tone "George" as he was trying for days to get the Austar to work but to no avail -  can you picture the scene - him on the roof and AJ mostly down here trying to communicate the signal figure - very funny - but funny how Tone (George) could not see the funny side!!!

And we still do not have the austar running and it is now in the lap of the gods - or an austar technical man to come and do his thing.


Well its now the end of our story and hope you all enjoy the pics as they tell more of the story.

Love and miss you all


Carotone
Oh there goes the SOS bus...........................

Mungrel leave Ma Alone

I showed 'm who is boss

Sunset on way to Alice

Chooks better side

Road Block for Bush Fires on way home from Alice

Aj Having a "Roady"

Us

Hot Stuff hey

Mmmmm Look at the chins 

Kuniya Water Hole

Baby Camel -Mallee

Tone "George" installing Austar Dish-Still Not working

Chooks turn to drive (Oh Shit)

Waiting for SOS bus

Who does the bloke on the Right look like ???

Cheers to Uluru

Cheers Again

Great Night out 

I Got as far as the chain

Sweaty Palms kicked In (Better go back down)

Green-Uluru Track,Purple-Aj's Track,Orange-(LOST)

Dont Touch Me 

WOW what a week................

Hiya all from here in "sunny" Yulara.

Well we have had our 2ndish week of work at the cultural centre at the Ininti Cafe, and boy its soooo busy!  There are two shifts we have been doing either 6.45am till 3.15pm or 9am till 5.30pm and there is not much time to stand around - as there will be a bus load come in and its all on in the cafe and souvenirs and then you get a lull - tidy up and its all on again.  It was good today we managed to get a bit more than the surface done.  There is so much to do - god knows when Tone will be able to get the "maintenance" done but it will happen once the staff are all on board.

Its funny the amount of foreigners that come in and you ask them a question and you get a blank look and - so its a one way conversation - we do have a chuckle to ourselves over that.
I have had a few people ask about axaria - weird that it is still on peoples minds and one bloke this week came in and asked if he could busy some of the rock or dirt to take home LOL - There are big signs everywhere not to take anything unless you get bad luck - oh well!!!???

We have done 7 days by tomorrow and looking forward to a few days off.

Tonight we are off to the assistant managers for bbq with the workers as some are leaving after their six month stint here. Lizzie and Mal are from Buff Point - can you believe it and so is Lisa who has just left to work at retail in voyages (in town).  On monday chook and aj arrive for the week and we are off to Alice - so Tone can get supplies for work and so we are up there for a few days.

Booked for sounds of silence dinner on the Wednesday night and back to work on Thursday.
Its a shame - we can't take pics of our work as its in the cultural centre - so a no no but when you visit you will see it for yourselves LOL....

It really is an amazing place and we see the rock every day and it changes - or something - Wilson and Tone think its alive - its certainly another world out here.....

Its funny - we have been on close at work and Tone now has these four legged friends that turn up for a "feed" - as we throw away at the end of the day what is not sold and so they are spoilt rotten by him - mind you they need fattening up - they are the indigenous dogs and not treated the best.........Oh well its Tones good deed.

Well not much more to report this week - knackered but very happy with our lives

Love and Miss you all


xoxoxoxo

Carotone

NEVER A DULL DAY IN ULURU.....

Hiya all,

Today we have just completed our third week of work here at Voyages in Yulara.  And we have been here now 4 weeks.  OMG where does the time go....

Well the latest and greatest news from here is that we have given notice of our jobs in the resort and wait for it are now going to be working at the cultural centre in the National Park right under the "rock"!!!!!
Tone is going to be handyman supervisor - of himself LOL and he will also be doing work out at the "community" where the indigineous live.  That should be interesting as the "smell" is REALLY BAD!!!!  Just as well Tone has no sense of smell or he would be bringing up his brekky ROFL...

Their community funnily enough is the old resort where the camping used to be - yeah that's right where Azaria got taken from!

I am going to be supervisor of the gift shop and cafe and taking care of  stock control - yeah baby.  We will be earning far more money than our piddly $18.00 per hour now and we will take one car and have one shift.  We will have the same days off together - really doesn't matter which days.

I do have the days off for when chook and aj come over so that is great.

We had an afternoon out to the rock and took some sunset photos from one of the many viewing areas.
Hope you enjoy.  We will keep you all posted as we take on our new role.  The cooks in the kitchen at the cafe are maoris......I will be working with cuzzie bros....

We have tidied up our new place of abode and I hope you all notice the difference and appreciate that we have tried to posh up our shanty town......

Love and miss you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooooo

Enjoy the pics

Our dessert garden at the front of our abode

The cover up......

The tarp on the side is to protect our fridge from the HEAT!!!

Inside looking out..............

What a difference out the back............

AAAAAwwh...................

olgas and rock OOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Us taking in the view..............

Oh Yeah!!!!

Caroltone