After leaving Uluru, we backtracked about 150 kms to the turn off to Kings Canyon. The day was still overcast and cold and we decided that we would stay at Kings Creek Station, which is a working cattle and Camel station about 40 k’s shy of Kings Canyon. It offered bush like camping as an alternative to the resort set up down the road at the Kings Canyon Resort. It also sold fuel and basic supplies. Another advantage was that here we could have campfires, something that was very attractive when the temperatures were dropping into the single figures during the night. This also meant that there was the possibility that Ruby would be able to mix up one of her dampers and that we would be able to devour it as well!?!?!?
Finally the place offered the best “real espresso” coffee in the outback!!!
The station is also the largest camel farm in Australia, offering camel for both export and consumption.
We visited Kings Canyon the next day and this was spectacular even though the weather as not. We all walked a fairly arduous 6 –7 km around the rim of the canyon, completing a loop back to the car park. The canyon walls and rock faces are basically 400 million year old sand dunes that have been turned to stone through the ages. They are just spectacular!!
We had one more night here before pushing on once again to the West MacDonnell Ranges.
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