I would avoid the area like the plague, couldn't think of anything worse. When we were there well over a decade ago we did not walk up but walked around instead.
It was end of September & stinking hot, took us 2 hours but enjoyed the rock formations very much. It is worth walking around.
I personally would leave it until 2020, you will have the area to yourself!
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Currently in Darwin and listening to the local ABC radio. Just about every day there is a story regarding the crowd at Uluru.
The resort is booked out, the camping area has over 2000 campers, ($67.00 pnp) apparently there is a 30 minute wait to use the loo, showers are out of water.
Curtin Springs totally booked out, 100's camping along the road in.
Parking at the rock extends back over a mile and the walk up the rock is dangerously overcrowded.
Not sure if this is a recent thing, but the Big Red Bash is on soon so there are an extra 9000 travellers that may be having an impact at the moment.
I know that not all 9000 are going to go to the rock, but it may well be having an impact at the moment and for a few weeks to come.
I am not normally negative or argumentive but where the hell are the authorities. We were there early June last year when the Japanese man died of a heart attack. Everything then was booked out due to everyone wanting to climb the rock before the ban. We were in the overflow area and it was just atrocious conditions a year ago. We were ok as we planned ahead and were completely self sufficient using our own shower and toilet for the 4 days we were there but for most of the others it must have been difficult. I would estimate at least 200 ppl in the overflow area and some as far away as 300metres to the abultions. From my memory only about 6 showers and 4 toilets. The dust was incredible. I hate to think what it is now like this year. In a 1st world country like ours ..... How does it get to this? Where is the governing authority?
-- Edited by cjt55 on Friday 12th of July 2019 10:26:31 PM
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Where are all the authorities. I heard on ABC News recently, from memory, another $130m funding has been cut from National Parks. I had a chat with a Ranger last year & he said we have no one left to do anything. Maybe an outbreak of cholera with solve the problem one way or another!
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