Driving into the Northern Territory through the desert, with huge Mesa's to the East and the West, surprised by wildflowers and unusual flora. Bright yellow grevilleas, tall spindly desert oaks appear in groves and a carpet of purple parakeelya. We mistook the huge Mt Connor Mesa for Uluru. Our campsite is perfect, on soft red sand, backing onto the dunes with few neighbours. Uluru is a seductive monolith, ever changing. She is the Kingfisher woman, looking over her people, with scars from battles with giant dogs, spear marks from wars between the Woma python and the poisonous snake, she is a powerful entity.

At sunset

Sunrise over the desert

A Thorny Devil

Uluru rock art

One rock,  4 mammoth days of driving to get here and 3.5 hours to walk around her.

driving in to the  NT

Strike a pose!

Nellie surfing the rock