Australian Outback (from a plane)

The 6-hour flight from Sydney to Bali took us directly over the Australian outback which I was quite curious about.

Taking off in Sydney – East Coast of Australia

I took this picture just seconds before we disappeared into the clouds:

Australian East Coast close to Sydney

Different faces of the Outback

In some places it looked like a wind-swept desert:

Outback desert

Australian Outback

While in other places (close to Ayer’s Rock or Uluru) it looked almost like Mars:

Mars or Australia?

Then in the middle of the nowhere we flew over a huge lake:

Lake between Western and Northern Territories in Australia

No, this is not the Caribbean, but the Australian desert!

The shoreline of that huge lake in the desert

Australian West Coast from the air

And finally, here we are passing over the Australian West Coast on the way to Bali:

The Northwest Coast of Australia