Uluru In The Rain

The parks department and the traditional owners of this land are careful to point out that there are two possible explanations for how Uluru (Ayers Rock) got here.

The geologists say that Uluru is the small tip of a six kilometer thick layer of very hard sandstone made from eroded granite that was laid down over hundreds of millions of years in a shallow sea and then distorted and eroded and twisted again over a few more hundred million years.

The indigenous Anangu people, for whom this site is sacred, believe that the sand python laid her eggs a few kilometers from there at Kata-Tjuta and then came over to Uluru to build a safe place and go to ground and left her shape and mark on the landscape.

I like both stories. You decide. Millions of years are hard to imagine.

I arrived here this afternoon and took off to drive around the rock a couple of times in each direction. As the day wore on, a few different storms passed through and you can see the little rivers of water cascading off the south side. 

Then the rain started again and made a wonderful double rainbow visible in the evening from the sunset viewing area.

An amazing afternoon.