Ayres Rock (Uluru) Trip - Broken Hill to Uluru
April 2007
The drive through Cockburn, Olary and
Manna Hill on the way to Peterborough
was pretty ordinary as those villages were
struggling to be more than places on the
map. Despite the fact that some were
trying to keep the villages viable, it is a
constant struggle. Peterborough was
going OK and had a good shopping centre
with quite a few tourist attractions for an
old railway township. We camped at the
local Caravan Park and looked at the
‘open’ tourist attractions briefly, but, we
have been back many times since and
spent lots of dollars in the town.
At Port Aususta we had to do more
shopping as crossing the SA border had
cost us some banned fruit & vegetables,
so to re-stock the fridge and food bin
because there would not be many
supermarkets further north.
While we were stopped we did take a look
around as Fiona was starting to look at
where were heading, I didn’t want to
discourage her so we worked out how we
were going to deal with travel and
camping from here on. To my surprise
she didn’t even blink .... in fact she was
seriously excited