Day 18 - Uluru Walk & Guest Activities

Day 18 - Saturday - 6/6/2026  

Today we went back to Uluru, and we went for a walk to a waterhole there while my 9 year old cousin Charlie went for a run around Uluru with her dad. Us boys had already been to the waterhole but none of the girls had which is why we did that. The waterhole was on the edge of Uluru, pretty small and probably really cold because it was almost always in the shade.

Waterhole at Uluru

The walk was only 1km so Charlie and Mat would still be running for a bit longer and so we decided that we would walk up to a car park a few kilometres away from us while my dad and grandpa drove there to pick us up. When we had about 1km left we ran into my dad and a few hundred metres later my grandpa. Once we got back to the cars we drove back to the original carpark that we were at, where we met Charlie and Mat, they were pretty tired after running 10km and sadly Charlie got a cramp in her foot. They told us that it took them 1 hour and 30 minutes which to me sounds like a pretty good time to me especially since Charlie had a foot cramp. Then we drove to the local IGA and bought some pies for lunch. Then we walked to the nearby theatre where we had a free talk about bush tucker. The man told us lots of techniques on how collect and look for animals and plants like how to find honey ants you have to find a worker ant and follow it back to its nest which you have to dig down a few metres to get the honey ants and how when you eat the honey ant you only want to eat the abdomen because that is the bit that tastes like honey plus it can regrow it. He also told us about plants like the Honey Grevilia and how it has a lot of nectar and tastes like honey. At the end of the talk the man let us try a berry that looked like a blueberry and some Quandong jam on a cracker, I hated the berry but loved the Quandong jam it tasted just like raspberry jam. 

Bush Tucker

Then we went to this presentation were there was a guy with a didgeridoo who taught us some interesting techniques on how to play it.

Didgeridoo player video

The we went to a nearby place where there was a presentation called bush yarns. The person talking about it was the same guy from the bush tucker talk. He told us about the weapons the aboriginal people used like spears and boomerangs and how some of them could throw a spear more than 100 metres!