Day 10 Tuesday 18th

After breakfast we headed out to Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) for a full days walk. (Surprisingly not sore apart from my ribs!! Obviously from pulling up the chain on the rock) Amazing to see Kata Tjuta from the ground. It's equally as impressive as it is from the air, if not more so!

The colours of these spectacular domes are amazing, orange/reds and brilliant blues compliment each other into breathtaking beauty!

Kata Tjuta means 'many heads' in the local language. The area is sacred under Tjukurpa and Anagu men's law.
There are a total of 36 domes.

When I was in Matric I did an art installation of plaster casts of hands and heads, one of which I drew the Olgas on with pastels. I think I still have it under the house!

We did a quick hours walk into the Walpa Gorge which rises out of the red dirt straight up into the sky. It's amazing as there is a reliable source of water in this oasis and yet no rain!

Then we proceed to walk the Valley of the Winds, of course JD thought our best option after the Kari lookout walk was to continue on to do the full circuit Grade 4 - difficult 7.4km (4hr)

Grace needed a fair amount of encouragement to join us, despite the beauty she assured us she'd rather not come. Begrudgingly she did but let us all know what she thought! Olivia and Matilda amused themselves for much of the walk with "bum rock"

In all we walked 12.5 kms and the kids were exhausted by the end.

But it was absolutely spectacular and well worth the effort! Got some photos which I hope do it some justice, loved it!

Back to the pool for a well earned rest, swim and G&T. Quick dinner in the Walpa bar. JD had kangaroo pasta and Grace and I cauliflower gnocchi, Yummo Girls little cheese burger!

We were picked up at the hotel at 7.15 to go out to internationally renowned artist Bruce Munro's art installation "Field of Lights" 'Looking at lots of beautiful lights' in local Pitjantjatjara.

An instillation comprising 50,000 solar-powered stems all put together by hand and covering an area of 49,000 square meters (7 footy fields) at Uluru, iconic natural wonder of the world!

As you wander through the colours change. Under an enormous stary sky Mesmerising!

The installation took over 2000 hours to design and build 50,000 individually hand crafted delicate optical fibre light stems in the UK and a further 3,900 hours to recreate on site.

We happily missed our first bus back and explored and photographed the field from the lookout. One the way back in the bus grace airdropped a photo she took of some foreign back-packers she had walked Kutu Tjuta with and they inturn shared a photo they took of the field. That's our days cover photo.

Another amazingly awe inspiring, busy day in Central Australia! If you haven't already been it's definitely one for the bucket list!