The Olgas, Australia

by chris cunningham

We woke up at 4:00am this morning to catch the sunrise at Uluru. Turned into a bust as the sun never really came out behind the clouds. Jill’s face pretty much says it all. “I got up at what hour for this?” I laughed. We were also headed over to the Olgas. The “other” rocks. Not a lot of people realize there are lots of other rocks, besides Uluru, in the area. We headed over to the Olgas for a morning hike. In some ways they’re more beautiful. Not as sacred to the Aborigines, but that’s their history. We walked through a place called the valley of the winds and to a hilltop between two of the heads. We got out of there just before it started to get hot and stopped at a lookout to view the the whole formation. Next stop, Cairns.