Uluru

We spent the day in and around Uluru on Saturday, 12 July. The weather was beautiful again, as it's been in the desert so far - sunny, blue skies. We walked some trails up to and along parts of the rock, just revelling in the splendour of it.
Bill Bryson is an author that writes very witty books about his travels, often finding the funny and obscure in anything and everything. But I found that in his book on Australia ("In a Sunburnt Country"), he was virtually tongue-tied when it came to Uluru. He was talking about the fact that Uluru is very far from anywhere. He and a friend were going there from Alice Springs, and here's the quote, his travelling companion was speaking: "Well, I suppose we'd better go and see if this bloody rock is worth a 600-mile round trip." All Bill has to say is, "It was."


















We spent part of the morning exploring a rock formation not too far from Uluru, called the Olgas, although the Aboriginal name is Kata Tjuta (means Many Heads). There was a 7.4 walk around one of these cones of rock, and that proved to be a wonderful walk. We had to bribe the girls with chocolate on occasion to keep them going, but we had fun and even built a little inukshuk, just to leave something Canadian behind (you have to look closely in the picture to see it).