Hamish on Uluru and Kata Tjuta

Finally reached it. The biggest rock in Australia was in our face. Uluru and Kata Tjuta!

On one of the many days we stayed at Yulara we walked around Uluru. The first bit we did was called The Mala Walk. One of the several caves there was the teaching cave with paintings on the wall where the aboriginal men taught the aboriginal children history.

The next cave was the men’s cave where the men talked about stuff that is secret to them. The last cave was the cooking cave where the women cooked. It was big – like the size of our living room if you’ve been there.

Then we got on with the base walk, which went around Uluru. It was pretty much desert plain, the rest of the walk, except for the last bit which was a gorge.

I am now going to tell you the story of Liru and Kuniya:

Once Heidi made a joke about a face in the rock and then later there was a story on the sign that said it was a face. Liru, as it was known, was once hit in the head by Kuniya, the water python. Liru was a venomous snake that Kuniya did not like. The first hit from Kuniya carved a bit off Liru’s head. Then Kuniya hit him again on the head. Then Liru lay there, possibly to be dead. Now remember this is a story.

The next day we drove to Kata Tjuta to walk. First, we did the full circuit. The rocks were not really sand stone but mud stone with granite and other rocks that came from the Petermann Mountains 500 million years ago.

The walk surface was rocky and much more challenging to walk than Uluru. At the start of the walk I mae a picture out of the rock. It mostly looked like S.S. Humongous submarine. First we went to the Karu lookout, which was before the turnoff for the circuit.

It was the best view I had ever seen. We walked back down stairs and I started playing “only touch rocks”.

The landscape was much greener than Uluru, which was outback desert.

After another lookut called Karingana Lookout, we saw a helipad for emergencies. After that walk we went on another walk that we ran just straight.

The reason that I liked Uluru an Kata Tjuta National Parks was because of the interesting history.