DAY 13 – Friday 15 June 2012 Kings Canyon to Ormiston Gorge

Trip Meter Reading Start – 2405           
 Trip Meter Reading Finish – 2996
Total Km Travelled – 590 km
Fuel Costs & Consumption
Filled up Kings Canyon
Gas $1.45 / l (66.53 litres / $96.47 (lasted 266kms)
Filled up Erldunda
Gas $1.15 / l (65.15 litres / $75.25) lasted 265 kms)
Fill up Alice Springs
Petrol $1.79 / l (23.63 litres / $42.51)

Comments -  Luke Baker

Today we did a 7.0km walk around Kings Canyon.  We climbed up the first hill it was a killer I thought my hart was gonna pop.  Dad faked his death by faking to jump off a 300 metre cliff but he just jumped on a rock ledge.  I also went to the garden of eden where Adam and eve met.  There is heaps of sandstone over 350 million years old.
Comments – Mum and Dad
Had a full day exploring the Canyon; completed the Rim walk in 3 hours (7 kms up and down through rocky ledges and stairs)  It took 3 hours to complete including the extra 1.2 km into the Garden of Eden to the waterhole); once at the bottom, although completely tuckered out, forged on to complete the 1 hour walk through the creek base up into the guts of the gorge; it was a wonderful and interesting walk, and better still free of charge!  The native pigeons at the Garden of Eden were cute following us by foot to the waters edge.  The photos do not do the place justice; it’s a very spiritual place especially when you take the time to stop and listen.
Left the canyon at 2.30 pm and forged on through to Alice Springs to do some shopping before heading out in the dark towards Ormiston Gorge.  Our idea was to free camp at the Neil Hargrave Lookout so we could get up early to start an early morning walk at the Gorge.