It’s like a tiny little Uluru. At 500m across the top, Pildappa Rock is big! Still when you do the maths it’s only one percent of Uluru’s massive presence and that’s the bit we can see above the ground.

We stopped here for a while travelling out of Minnipa and explored some of Pildappa Rock’s terrain including the natural pools of water that collect on the surface and provide a source of life for birds, frogs and other critters.

Just like Uluru, that red colour is just a thin veneer of red dust over grey sandstone. Spray painted by the wind and then baked on by the sun it lulls into thinking the entire rock is that familiar orange, red all the way through.