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12/08/2015 Uluru/AyersRock - Marla (Australia)
160 miles above the Lassiter Highway back from Uluru to Stuart Highway and there again 160 miles according to Marla, our goal today in the middle of the Australian Nowhere.
About 120 miles before Marla we cross the state border of the Northern Territories to South Australia and were due to the different time zones again for another hour. The time difference to Germany is now +9.5 hours.
It was even less traffic than on weekends, at most every 15-20 minutes we met another car or a road train. Particularly impressive is the calm in the immensity, no sounds of civilization, simply silence and magnificent scenery.
Sunset in the Outback
The World Tour Team with new hats
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2/07/2015 Alice Springs – Uluru /Ayers Rock (Australia)
Three Deloreans at the Uluru / Ayers Rock! This was our absolute highlight on the tour so far!
The day began rainy during the departure from Alice Springs. At the town exit we made a photo shooting as a car stopped by and the driver introduced himself as the mayor of Alice Springs, Damien Ryan.
We informed him about our tour and the Deloreans. A picture with all of us was a matter of course.
On the trip in direction to Yulara we saw the first kangaroos in free wildlife:
The endless Outback with dead straight highways offered a lot of impressive pictures:
After about 280 miles we reached the Ayers Rock resort, where John Frisina, a Delorean owner from Sydney, already waited for us. He flew in just for our visit and he attends us today and tomorrow here at the Uluru, later we will meet him again in Sydney.
Mount Conner, about 63 miles before Ayers Rock:
The first sight from a distance of about 13 miles:
After the check-in in the hotel we went the last miles into the national park und then we found out the “Wooooow!”- effect because of the gigantic Uluru / Ayers Rock, this big rock in the middle of the Australian Outback. Just beyond words! Let the pictures speak for it:
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12/06/2015 Renner Springs - Alice Springs (Australia)
630 km straight on the Stuart Highway, that was our current day
Even at almost 40 degrees outside the DeLorean running like clockwork and the air conditioning works well. So there is at least inside the car a bearable temperature.
The roadside was lined for hundreds of kilometers of partially bizarrely shaped termite mounds.
A stop at the National Park Karlu Karlu, aka 'Devils Marbles' was a must, because here are laying thousands of granite rocks in spherical or rounded shape provide a fantastic view and great photo opportunities.
Around half past three we arrived at Alice Springs at the 'Alice Motor Inn', where already waiting a reporter for the local newspaper in an interview to our tour.
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12/05/2015 Darwin (Australia)
From today we're at last on the road again. Starting from Darwin we will drive during the next few days across the 1680 miles long Stuart Highway, which connects the north with the south of Australia. Our first stage leaded us 516 miles to Renner Springs, which is nothing else then a petrol station with a connected motel in the nowhere.
The Stuart Highway is very well constructed, but rarely driven, partially no other car encountered us for 20 minutes. On the left and the right of the road there's nothing as outback, wilderness and millions of termite mounds, sometimes the sight on a dead-straight section was more than 3 miles.
Encounters with Australian road trains, that are trucks with three or four trailers, that race along the highway at more than 80 mph:
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12/04/2015 Darwin (Australia)
The last day in Darwin greeted us with a stunning morning sky.
We made it again to the front page of the NT News:
Some dust boots of the ball joints were destroyed during the quarantine cleaning and all axle boots were due to be replaced anyway, so we made an inspection day. Conveniently, we rented a car lift in the shop opposite our hotel for a few hours.
After five hours of professional work with Wolfgang's guidance the three DeLoreans are fit and ready for the Australian Outback!
Später am Nachmittag Rod kam zu dem Hotel mit seinen Delorean und gemeinsam werden wir die "Chrome-Auto-Meeting" am Hafen, die jeden Monat stattfindende jeden ersten Freitag besucht. Hier treffen Auto-Enthusiasten aus der ganzen Gegend für das Kreuzen und Benzingespräch.
On the way back to the hotel we made a refueling stop and provided us with enough water for tomorrow's first stage into the Australian wideness.