APB: Cellarites missing.

[ZenGum]

Yeah just very busy. I'm doing a training course at work and planing a trip up to Ye Bigge Redde Rocke soon as well.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Yeah just very busy. I'm doing a training course at work and planing a trip up to Ye Bigge Redde Rocke soon as well.

Bring back a rock for me.

[casimendocina]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Yeah just very busy. I'm doing a training course at work and planing a trip up to Ye Bigge Redde Rocke soon as well.

Driving, flying or some other form of transport? Camping or more salubrious accommodation? Have you been before? Are you going to Kata Tjuta as well? (stupid question-you can't not go being so close and I reckon they're almost even more spectacular than the Rock itself). Are you climbing the Rock or observing the wishes of the original inhabitants? Hmmm, how many other annoying questions can I think of?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Yeah just very busy. I'm doing a training course at work and planing a trip up to Ye Bigge Redde Rocke soon as well.

Originally Posted by casimendocina

Driving, flying or some other form of transport? Camping or more salubrious accommodation? Have you been before? Are you going to Kata Tjuta as well? (stupid question-you can't not go being so close and I reckon they're almost even more spectacular than the Rock itself). Are you climbing the Rock or observing the wishes of the original inhabitants? Hmmm, how many other annoying questions can I think of?

And more to the point, when you speak of it, do you refer to it as Uluru or Ayers?

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by casimendocina

Driving, flying or some other form of transport? Camping or more salubrious accommodation? Have you been before? Are you going to Kata Tjuta as well? (stupid question-you can't not go being so close and I reckon they're almost even more spectacular than the Rock itself). Are you climbing the Rock or observing the wishes of the original inhabitants? Hmmm, how many other annoying questions can I think of?

Are you going to try to photograph the sites of gender-linked rituals?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Bring back a rock for me.

Not on your nellie, sir. (a) removing rocks from national park, (b) rude to Aboriginal people and (c) too many stories about people having a lot of bad luck after doing that - allegedly rangers regularly receive pebbles in the mail from people trying to return them.

Originally Posted by casimendocina

Driving, flying or some other form of transport? Camping or more salubrious accommodation? Have you been before? Are you going to Kata Tjuta as well? (stupid question-you can't not go being so close and I reckon they're almost even more spectacular than the Rock itself). Are you climbing the Rock or observing the wishes of the original inhabitants? Hmmm, how many other annoying questions can I think of?

Driving. Camping or cheaper hotels. Got six days in the Red Centre so I will see Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon and spend three days in the Western Macdonnells, maybe some hiking near Ormiston Gorge. I won't climb Uluru but I will walk around it, and I maybe do a hot air balloon ride or something. Lots.

Originally Posted by glatt

And more to the point, when you speak of it, do you refer to it as Uluru or Ayers?

Uluru. That is the acid-test for Aussies on the Redneck / Pinko-greenie axis. That and climbing it.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Are you going to try to photograph the sites of gender-linked rituals?

No. See above. And I had a student in Japan who had taken some film photos of some of the sacred places before he knew they were sacred. When he got home he found that this roll of film had somehow become exposed and was completely black.

My main thought here is that there has been far too much gratuitous insult (on top of injuries) offered to Aboriginal people in this country, I'm not going to add to it.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Not on your nellie, sir. (a) removing rocks from national park, (b) rude to Aboriginal people and (c) too many stories about people having a lot of bad luck after doing that - allegedly rangers regularly receive pebbles in the mail from people trying to return them.

That happens on the Big Island, Hawaii all the time as well. The museum there is filled with the rocks and the letters from the people who returned them.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

No. See above. And I had a student in Japan who had taken some film photos of some of the sacred places before he knew they were sacred. When he got home he found that this roll of film had somehow become exposed and was completely black.

My main thought here is that there has been far too much gratuitous insult (on top of injuries) offered to Aboriginal people in this country, I'm not going to add to it.

I know you wouldn't, I was practicing my sarcasm.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

My main thought here is that there has been far too much gratuitous insult (on top of injuries) offered to Aboriginal people in this country, I'm not going to add to it.

Did any of see/like/get scared by Silent Hill?

[HungLikeJesus]

Wasn't there a horror movie about that place?

[jinx]

Maybe a dingo ate'chore babeh?

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Wasn't there a horror movie about that place?

I think you are thinking of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" Also involving an Australian rock, but in a different part of the country, and with a totally different name.

[Aliantha]

There was Wolf Creek. That was set in central outback Australia. If you haven't seen it and you like gruesome movies, I recommend it. It's even worse for the fact that it's based on a true story.

[HungLikeJesus]

Yes, Wolf Creek. That was good.

[Aliantha]

I regret having seen it actually. Some fo the scenes are still stuck in my sub conscious and pop up every now and then.

Here's a scarey fact too. My family and I visited that meteor crater when travelling through central Australia when I was a kid.