Yulara and surrounds - July 22 and 23- Day 16 & 17 on track.

STATS:
Distance Travelled: 69.6km - not much - out to the rock and back.

We committed to sunrise this morning, so we were all up in various states of disrepair to head out to the rock for Sunrise. this was followed by a return to camp and fitting of the second shock. Meg, Milani and I then headed off for our Dot Painting workshop followed by a Kuniya Sunset Tour of the Rock.

Here we are...waiting for the sun to rise. Meg, Milani, Stef with new "Ted Beanie" (he forgot his hat, Dad.

The Rock as the sun rose - it was pretty overcast, so we didn't really get a lot of great shots.

That was about as much sun as we saw.

Is it any different, at all?

Uluru with Kata Tjuta in the background.

A little bit of colour in the sky.

Sun on the base of the rock.

Here come the bush mechanics. (Stef found his hat)

Steve at the filing, Stef sorting something else.

Old shocks and the new one.

the filing done, the shock nearly fits.

The front shock with it's newly discovered crack....

Putting the pieces back together.

Now does it all look straight. Poor Stef looks stuffed, he has worked very hard to get this back together....and you call it a holiday?

Following the Dot Painting, we went to the Rock for our Sunset tour, Sarah, a local Anangu woman, took both our Dot Painting and rock tour. She spoke her traditional language, which was interpreted by this guy for our tour and his girlfriend for the Dot Painting.

Talking about the rock art in this cave.

The rock art.

Dad looking at something.

Mutijulu Waterhole, this has the most amazing "dreamtime" story associated with it and the rock around it. Really fascinating, this rock was shaped by the movement of a "snake" you can see where the rock was carved out as the snake moved around the rock.

Silouhette of bird that I liked

The Moon is out.

This rock shows the head of the snake looking back over it's 'shoulder'

Explaining about bush food and the tools.

Foods, tools and water plus the ring. We had seen these rings, but were curious as to what they were used for.

Sarah demonstrates the use of the head ring.

Look no hands, Meg had a go.

Sunset shots.

Sunset with moon.

A bit of colour aroun the Rock.

The Sun setting behind the scenes.

Further along with the moon.

and the lucky last one.

Back to camp and out for tea after this. Whilst at Yulara we seized the opportunity to eat out, which was a change from the campfire cooking.