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Visiting the Camel Farm at Yulara šŸŖ
08/21/2026

Visiting the Camel Farm at Yulara šŸŖ

This morning I went to something called Sunrise Journeys at Uluį¹Ÿu.You rock up while itā€™s still dark, proper outback dark...
08/20/2026

This morning I went to something called Sunrise Journeys at Uluį¹Ÿu.

You rock up while itā€™s still dark, proper outback dark, and across the desert these massive projections start rolling out based on artwork by Aį¹‰angu artists and telling part of the Mala story.

Thereā€™s music.
Thereā€™s narration.
Thereā€™s Aboriginal art moving across the desert like the land itself is remembering things out loud.

And underneath it all, the birds start waking up in the desert soft at first, then building, like a dawn chorus you didnā€™t even realise you were about to be part of.

And then, while all thatā€™s going on, the sky starts doing its thing.

Blue. Pink. Yellow. Orange.
And Uluį¹Ÿu is just sitting there in the distance getting brighter and redder like it knows full well everyoneā€™s come all this way just to see it.

I spent yesterday learning about this rock.
Over 500 million years old.
Sacred beyond words.
Stories held in it that Iā€™m only allowed fragments of.
It changes colour with the light.
This morning it did.
Slowly. Quietly. No one clapped. No one needed to. Just a bunch of people standing there in the desert, a bit stunned, thinking: yeahā€¦ fair dinkum.

Tonight I walked through 50,000 lights in the middle of the Australian desert.Because apparently Uluį¹Ÿu wasnā€™t spectacula...
08/20/2026

Tonight I walked through 50,000 lights in the middle of the Australian desert.

Because apparently Uluį¹Ÿu wasnā€™t spectacular enough on its own.

The whole thing started in 1992, when British artist Bruce Munro visited Uluį¹Ÿu and became fascinated by the way the desert can look completely dead and then suddenly explode with life after rain.

He carried that idea around for more than 20 years.

Which is a very long time to think about light bulbs.

Eventually he came back and planted more than 50,000 tiny solar-powered lights across an area bigger than seven football fields.

They glow in ochre, violet, blue and white.

From far away, they look like flowers blooming in the darkness.

Then you walk down into them.

And suddenly there are thousands of little lights underneath you.

Millions of actual stars above you.

And Uluį¹Ÿu sitting in the darkness between the two.

I donā€™t know much about art.
But I know when something is pretty.
And this was very pretty.

The installation was supposed to be temporary when it opened in 2016.

Ten years later, itā€™s still here.

I guess sometimes you make something so beautiful that everybody just agrees not to turn it off.

This is Kata Tjuța = ā€œmany headsā€
08/20/2026

This is Kata Tjuța = ā€œmany headsā€

08/20/2026

This is Uluru. Aka Ayerā€™s Rock.

Long, long ago, the Mala people were living around Uluį¹Ÿu.Mala means a little hare-wallaby. Cute little thing, really.Any...
08/19/2026

Long, long ago, the Mala people were living around Uluį¹Ÿu.
Mala means a little hare-wallaby. Cute little thing, really.

Anyway, the Mala people were having a ceremony. And apparently when you start one of these ceremonies, youā€™re supposed to finish it. You canā€™t just say, ā€œWell, something else came up,ā€ and leave.

Then some people from way out west sent them an invitation. They wanted the Mala to come over and join their ceremony.
But the Mala said no.
Not because they were rude.
They just already had a ceremony going.

Seems reasonable to me.

Well, the people out west did not think it was reasonable.
They got very angry.
And instead of maybe talking about it, they sent a giant evil spirit dog named Kurpany to Uluį¹Ÿu.
That escalated pretty quickly.

Now Kurpany wasnā€™t just a regular dog.
He could change himself into things.
A tree. A rock. A bird.
Which seems like an awful lot of trouble for a dog, but I suppose evil spirit dogs have their ways.

There was a Kingfisher Woman named Luunpa, and she saw Kurpany coming.
She tried to warn everybody.
She basically said there was something terrible headed their way.
But nobody listened.
Sometimes people donā€™t listen until the giant supernatural dog is practically standing in the yard.

And sure enough, Kurpany arrived.
He attacked the Mala and killed many of the men.
Everybody else ran south away from Uluį¹Ÿu.
And that was the end of the ceremony.

But it wasnā€™t really the end of the story.
Because the Aį¹‰angu say Luunpa is still there, watching.
And Kurpany left his footprints on Uluį¹Ÿu.

So today you can walk around that enormous red rock and see places where the story lives in the land.

Tonight, I sat in the Australian desert drinking wine and eating dinner while 1,200 drones put the whole thing back into the sky. Including the giant devil dog.
Australia sure does have a way of telling you a bedtime story.

I wanted to see a wallaby or a koala in Australiaā€¦ the universe: here is a red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyria...
08/18/2026

I wanted to see a wallaby or a koala in Australiaā€¦ the universe: here is a red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is venomous, but it is considered one of the least dangerous venomous snakes in Australiaā€¦ you canā€™t pet it, but if you do, you might not die if you seek medical assistance šŸ«  call 000.

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