The family is off to Uluru for a hectic long weekend. We are all, apart from Gillian who is in Sydney and can’t escape, on board a Virgin flight headed for the iconic rock.

The senior Browns have been out here a couple of times before, one ages back and more recently we passed by on our way to Western Australia via the Outback Way through the centre of Aus.

The flight out took a little over three hours, quite a smooth transit. Some clear views of the landscape below, including a great sighting of the Rock as we came into land at Ayres Rock Airport. A little odd it seems in that we now refer to the actual Rock as Uluru and not Ayres.

After settling into our lodgings we all set off on the short walk up onto a sandhill, the Imalung Lookout, to catch a sun set view of the Rock. The vegetation is all very green and quite a contrast with the red sand on which we walk. Quite an impressive view.

We returned to the lodgings for dinner and an early night, it is 5am start tomorrow to see the Field of Light and a Rock sunrise.