We’re at Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock). I’m posting now because we have an afternoon trip of Uluru today and a morning trip of nearby Kata Tjuta tomorrow.
Australians call Uluru “The Red Centre” because the soil here is red and it’s in the middle of the country (sort of). The rock in the actual mountain Uluru is gray. As it erodes, it oxidizes and the red outside is all that is visible to us. I prefer this type of landscape to the southwest American desert. It feels less like a desert here and just “arid.” There are more full-blown trees here, and the red soil adds a pretty color. The ground is not hard packed but a fine sandy grit, as fine as the sand of the beaches of Hawaii that we just left.
Hope to have more photos later!
That red earth reminds me of the red soil of Prince Edward Island. Gorgeous!
Mary is lobbying for PEI as a place to settle. Hmmm…
Looks beautiful
It is. And some of its beauty can’t be captured on camera. Hope all’s well!
Cool place. I read about it in Bill Bryson’s book “In a Sunburned Country”.
The woman on the plane had the German version, translated as “Breakfast and Kangaroos.”