There’s a short time twenty to thirty minutes after sunset where something magical happens to Uluru. The combination of darkening sky and the spreading yellow glow of the horizon lights the land in a deep orange glow and makes the rock look like it’s glowing from within. So many people had packed up and headed […]
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Desert Grace
I remember once hearing an old Polynesian saying, ‘The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing’. I am certain that there also exists the same grace when taking the time to watch the sun fall through the changing colours of the darkening horizon into evening twilight. For a time […]
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Down in that valley far, far below hidden amidst the unlikely combination of eucalyptus trees and ancient cycad palms is Kings Creek. From up here the sense of scale is all but gone, the grandeur becoming abstract with the world below looking like some artisan’s crafted landscape garden. From down there looking back up at […]
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For the most part the critters we encountered at Uluru and Kings Canyon were timid and did not easily allow themselves to be photographed. This Ring-tailed Dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus) at the start of the Kings Canyon rim walk was one notable exception. He was happy to sit here on this rock watching just meters from […]
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A view sought after by many visitors to Uluru who then encounter the ethical dilemma which follows, climb and fulfill a lifelong dream or respect the wishes of the traditional owners and stay off the rock. In 1985 the Australian government gave title back to the traditional owners of the region and negotiated a 99 […]
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