11 August 2024

Signing off Ayers Rock / UIuru with a 5K run

To give you an idea about how exhausting this run was for me – nearly 40% of the time I was at 100% or above of my Max Heart Rate and peaked at 182 (112% of my Max Heart Rate)

This was no Outback Marathon – the research into which got me to learn about Uluru in 2015 – still It was worth it to put the 35th country with a 5K run or more in the books.

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10 August 2024

Uluru by sunset

We went back to the park in the evening – this time to see Uluru by sunset. What resplendence in the richest of hues! This is a completely untouched photo – taken from my iphone. This is definitely Uluru at its beautiful best.

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10 August 2024

On the other side was the shaded face of the other monolith

It was bright red off the reflection of light from the facing monolith. There were numerous birds flying in and out of the holes way up there. Sharmila had a theory that some of the bigger holes are the dens of red kangaroos. She made short shrift of my question – “How are they going to get in and out of there?” “Kangaroos can jump”, she pointed out.

I focused back on my hike down.

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