The weather on Tuesday May 13th, 2014 was very warm with a dry heat. It was actually cold in the morning when we started our day, but the more the day went on the warmer it got. The worst was when we did the hike at Watarrka up "heart attack hill".
The geological relationship linking many of the geological features of Central Australia was formed from the Alice Springs Orogeny. It started 550 million years ago when two tectonic plates pushed together and formed the Peterman Range. Then from erosion the Peterman Range began to degrade. The Alice Springs Orogeny then happened 250 million years ago when formations like Uluru and Kata Tjuta were exposed. Uluru was rotated 88 degrees.
One of the unusual plants that I saw was the Finish Tree. It was unusual because of how many uses the Aboriginal people used it for. They would use it to treat warts, melanomas, and much more. They would stick the pin from the tree into the warts and continue to do it for about a week or until the wart would fall off. This happens because the pin bad a small amount of poison in it.
Our stops at the roadhouses were very much appreciated, especially with all the traveling that we've been doing. They were just like rest stops that we have in America. Although these roadhouses had extra things that we don't have in the States. They would have places to park campers, picnic tables, a place to cook food, showers, and even a place to fix your car.
I noticed that the desert was much greener than I expected. I pictured the Outback as a flat red sand desert with nothing else around. To the contrary there was a lot of grass and trees around with mountain ranges.
A new Australian word I learned was Eski. It means cooler. Our tour guide Pip told us that our lunch was in the blue Eski or cooler.
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