Tuesday March 30, 2010

There is not too much to report today… we slept in, ate breakfast and sat around by the pool almost all day. Holy cow! We ARE on vacation! It was a gorgeous sunny day and I have a very good start on my tan. Highlights of the afternoon were watching a bird brutally attack a caterpillar to death and then swallow it whole. I have video of said event but the internet in the middle of nowhere is not that fast and I can’t upload it to YouTube just yet. Maybe in the next city we hit. It was pretty cool…

Before dinner we walked up to a look out point to see the sunset and the moonrise.

For dinner we went to the Outback Pioneer Hotel. Ayers Rock is basically just one big resort and you have access to all of the hotels, shops, restaurants. It’s very small and everything is in walking distance. The actual town is called Yulara and according to one of our tour guides it is the 4th largest town in the Northern Territory.

Dinner was one of those grill your own meat places, which is right up my alley since I don’t actually like to cook it.

My brother and I ordered the kangaroo skewers and Ann Marie and 818 ordered the combo which was kangaroo as well as crocodile kebabs, beef sausage and emu sausage. I made the mistake of not seasoning my kangaroo (I generally like my steak plain with a little salt if I am cooking it myself) and I regret it now. Ann Marie put some olive oil on hers and it was moist and much tastier than mine. Kangaroo actually tastes a lot like venison… and since I undercooked mine and it was not seasoned, it was actually pretty gross. I put mine back on the grill and then of course, it was overcooked. Peter and I are bound and determined to find it while we are here as a steak in a formal restaurant where someone who knows what they are doing can prepare it for us. The winner of the night was the emu sausage… and the bread pudding

From left to right: crocodile skewer, beef sausage, emu sausage and kangaroo skewers.

Early bed time, we have a 5:00 am wake up call to catch the sunrise.