Tag 14, 8. Mai, Kings Canyon

It was way too cold outside, barely 5°C, to do morning exercise, and from the two hikes on hard stone yesterday, my joints were already in pain. So I slept in until 6:00, then soon set off at dawn, back to Uluru.

This time we wanted to admire the sunrise from the sunset lookout, so that the sun wouldn't shine on the rock but rise behind it. Apart from us, only two others had the same idea, while one car strangely decided to park in the large elongated parking lot next to us.

Regardless, with a coffee in hand, sitting on the bed in the camper with the doors wide open, we admired the sunrise. Much nicer than yesterday!

After that, we drove around Uluru one last time to admire it, which took only about 30 minutes.

Then we left, out of the park, back onto the highway we had come. After about 160km, we turned left, heading north to Watarrka National Park. We arrived shortly after 11:00 and went first to the main attraction, Kings Canyon, where we took the short path (2km round trip) into the gorge. Steep red walls on the left and right with impressive weathering.

As with the MacDonnell Ranges, we had also seen a notice in this national park stating that poisoned meat baits had been laid out. Presumably to poison the dingoes, which should be very common here. And which would have been one of the attractions for us.

At 12:00 we arrived at the camping site, 7km away. At the reception, I asked about the dingoes, but they said they hadn't seen any for weeks. And we shouldn't worry, the problem was under control.

No sooner were we outside the reception and back in the car, when a dingo came towards us right in the parking lot, next to the reception!

We could hardly believe it at first, thinking it was just a dog since dingoes are wild ancestral domestic dogs, but the photos we took clearly showed: Definitely a dingo, slightly smaller than a shepherd dog, short sandy brown fur, short thick tail, pointed ears. Behind it, however, was a dog, a mixed breed, dark with a wide head reminiscent of a bull terrier. A street dog.

In Australia, they actually say