Actually I was in your country a week earlier but it rained on me every day, even three days of mist in Ayer's Rock and surrounding area. I never saw a star the whole time I was there, not even the sun! And I was there a bit over a week. Never rained much, drizzle mostly but it was the sky I wanted to see and couldn't. This was July of 2006. It had been decades they said since it rained there in winter. The only clear skies I had were in NZ (north island). I had two clear nights though the one that stayed clear all night was the one I had to be up at 5 a.m. to catch a plane so had to shut down earlier than I'd have liked. The other night the fog rolled in about 2 a.m. and that was that. Every day it was clear by day and mostly cloudy by night. Very frustrating.

Rick