Day 1 - Uluru

Is that an elephants bum?

Nah - it is Uluru at sunset.

Just a few of the few hundred people watching the sunset. Pete (my brother), Ryan and Nada (both in blue, friends from Canberra)

After a 5 hour drive, we arrived at Uluru where we did an afternoon walk around half of the base of the rock. None of us wanted to climb it which is permitted by not encouraged.

 

Uluru is the biggest rock in the world. It rises 348 metres above the flat desert and 2.5 km below the ground! It is awesomely huge and very rusty. It gets its reddish colour from oxidisation on its surface. It is grey inside under the rust. Also know as Ayers Rock, so named by a European explorer in 1873 after the South Australian governor of the day.

It is a mystical place of great spiritual significance to the Aboriginal people. It is an impressive geological feature and I could feel its spiritual presence as we wandered around the track gazing up at it.