While I was living and working in Central Australia, based out of the very small town of Yulara, I would end up out at Kata Tjuta (also known as The Olgas) at least once a week.
The company I worked for as a tour guide had a short sunset tour that ran every day as long as we had enough passengers interested.
I loved seeing this same view with the different lighting. Even though I was at this same spot at almost the same time each day, the colour of the rocks would change depending on the cloud cover.
I'm struggling to remember this photo, but I'm guessing from the angle of it that I might have taken it from the one and only time I did a helicopter ride.
This was the other view I got to see of Kata Tjuta each time I drove out there. This was actually the first stop on the tour and is about halfway between the resort (town) and the other spot with the photos you saw above, where we would have champagne and capanes. Or rather, the guests would have champagne; I had to drive the bus!
When my sister came to visit, we ventured out to do a long walk through Kata Tjuta. It was about four hours, I think. Which was easy enough for me to do, since I had to hike several days a week as part of my job. And I'd already been living in the desert for a few months and was pretty used to the weather. But my sister was not as fit as me and she'd just returned from a trip to India where it was very humid and definitely not the dry heat we got there. She did well though!
This is what it looks like in between all those giant red rocks! Some people are surprised that there are so many green trees! I certainly was.
There were also lots of feral camels out there. I think there are more camels in Australia than in the Middle East, where we originally imported them from. They were needed before we had cars to build the railway line across Australia. But once the railway line was built, some (idiot) person decided to just let them go. However, because camels are SO well-suited to the desert, they thrived! But they are a pest and a problem for the native ecosystems, so they are routinely culled. This doesn't solve the problem, it only manages the sheer number that is there.
I think I took this photo closer to Uluru (Ayers Rock) than Kata Tjuta, but it's a good shot to include here as it lets you see what a camel looks like if you've never seen one. While they might be a pest, they're still pretty awesome. It's rare I meet an animal I don't like.
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