We spent a few hours walking around the base of Uluru. From most of the pictures you see you think it’s just a big rock in the middle of the desert but there’s a lot more to it.
It’s about a 10km trip around the base of the rock and there’s a heap of these holes in the sides. Geologists aren’t sure how they were made but think they are due to erosion – either water seeped out of the rock over time (it used to be an inland sea) and washed out these sections or water flowed around the rock and washed out these sections.
The aborigines have a more interesting story about a ‘marsupial mole’. The mother mole dug a big hole at the top of Uluru and her children dug out the smaller holes.
There’s also five watering holes around the base of Uluru. When it rains water gets held at the top of the rocks and it falls down the sides and fills the watering holes.