Went on a guided walk of the Mala trail which written about before – one of the first walks we did at Uluru.  However, missed out the tale of the marsupial mole woman.  Marsupial moles burrow (really) through the sand, their pouches are the other way around so that when they burrow, the sand doesn’t go into it.  Anyway, the shadow in the middle of the picture is the entrance to a small cave.  It is said that the ancestral marsupial mole woman built this shelter and windbreak (the large stone to the LHS of the entrance).  Now marsupial mole woman was always burrowing for water and she burrowed from a ledge further to the left (and out of picture), through the rock making these holes.

A handy place as the bush (tree really) above is wild fig and the leaves you can see in the foreground belong to wild plum.

For lunch (well breakfast) – an outback pie.  Plain steak for Paul, pepper steak for me – which was truly peppery with gristle.

Paul says that this reminds him of me…….