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I recently came back from a trip to Northern Territory. What an amazing place to see! My girlfriend works as a dental nurse, and her boss here in Melbourne was off on holidays. He has contacts with a dentist that helps out up at Yulara near Uluru/Ayres rock, that could use a hand now and then, so my girlfriend got asked if she'd like to go up there to work for a week. She jumped at the chance of course, and I met up with her on her last day of work. We hired a Pajero and clocked up about 1400km. We were only meant to do 700, but it's a big place! We crammed so much into the time we had up there, and I only just feel like i'm recovered from it all now. We came back with some great memories of adventure and some funny nights with locals. I actually didn't take all that many pics, and the ones I did take were a little rushed. But I thought I'd chuck em up here anyway.





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Kings Canyon, Northern Territory







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Standley Chasm, Northern Territory






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On the way to Kings Canyon from Yulara. Mt Connor on the horizon.






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Uluru






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Kata Tjuta (aka the Olgas)






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Kata Tjuta (aka the Olgas)





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Driving to Kata Tjuta (aka the Olgas)





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Uluru.





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Cave at Uluru





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Sun rise over Uluru




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Yulara, Northern Territory.



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Love the Uluru one Dex. Maybe a tad over sharpened unless Flickr has done something to the edge of the rock.
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Yeah it definitely has. Checked the TIF and JPG versions in ACR/Photoshop, and no ugly halo etc. Dunno what it's done there.
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Just tried a bit of a screen grab of the TIF and uploaded to photobucket instead. Actually kind of annoying that flickr does that. I'm a paid member, I'd really have hoped that JPG's uploaded there wouldn't receive any further compression. :(

Still not as good as either the JPG or TIF on my computer but it's not as bad...

http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy18 ... td1yte.png

EDIT: it's also actually slightly worse in flickr's lightbox than if you load the high res image in the browser.
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Amazing pics Dex. We drove Darwin to Alice a couple of years back. Amazing experience.
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Awesome. All going well, next year I should be doing a trip up through the centre, and then across through the Kimberleys. Can't wait! These photos have me even keener :)
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Cheers guys. As Vil says, amazing experience. Definitely do it kwiji, you won't regret it! Just be prepared to spend money... freaking expensive adventure.
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Good stuff Dex.

I was amazed how complex Uluru is. I had always thought it was pretty much a solid cliff face all the way round so was surprised to see how complex it is up close.

Kata Tjuta is extraordinary too.
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Yeah me too Durbs... Lots of interesting formations etc. And even though I knew it was big, it was still bigger than I thought.
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Great stuff Dex. :up:
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Excellent photos Dex.
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DexterPunk wrote:Image
Now that's what I'm talking about.
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Fantastic shots, Looks an amazing place to go!
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As pretty much everyone's said now - some great photos Dex, looks like an amazing trip to do!
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Thanks guys! :)
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