( I couldn't understand how I'd seen so many photos showing the whole of Uluru..because I couldn't fit it in one shot! Wide angle lense I decided sadly! Everyone had one except me!)
Chris joked that this sign was warning of Uluru ahead!!
So, we got to the place they call, 'Chicken's Rock'; due to the fact that when you get up there, you see just how steep it is and decide to come down again! There is just a single chain to support you to the top! The children raced up to this point before we had a chance to tell them that, actually, the Aborigines don't like people climbing Uluru, due to sacred reasons and they get very upset when people hurt themselves or get killed on their ground! Perhaps they have to clean it up. We decided to honour these feelings....and the children , once told, were suitably sorry! (but liked it!!)
After breakfast at the Cultural Centre (definitely the best view in town!) we met our guide and interpreter for the Liru Walk; we were informed that the men needed to carry the spears and Jessica was offered the container to carry.(she wanted a spear, like Alex!), but eventually she was happy with the special digging stick.
Our Aboriginal guide was fascinating, describing and showing how they make a glue-type substance, which is very strong and hardens enough to go around a stick, to make a club, to whack the Kangaroo with!! That is, after the hunter has followed the marks left by a long, trailing spear! We learnt how to throw spears too, and even the girls got a go!! Apparently the guide was most fluent in his native Aboriginal tongue but suspicion that this could be a yarn for us tourists was confirmed when he told his young interpreter to "now go and fetch the bloody thing" after a particlarly impressive spear throw.
Our guide showed us where all the tools came from...it was incredible. Why can't they just go to B & Q like the rest of us.
Our first close up sight of the Olgas or Kata-Tjuta (meaning "many heads")
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