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The Imalung Lookout is situated on a low dune in the middle of the Yulara ring road. Red sandy tracks through the desert scrub lead up to a viewing site with several benches, binoculars on a pole, and a view of Uluru, aka Ayres Rock and the Olgas - Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. The sand is soft, it was HOT when we were there and a little effort is required - and there are flies!
The Australian bushfire crisis had been going on for around three months. Sydney was shrouded in smoke on the 31 of October when we flew to Uluru. Three days later this massive scrub fire threatens to stop the inaugural Opera At Uluru. The fire did not stop, the performance did go on. Fires are still burning out of control in January 2020.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
