Kata Tjuta invites us into a community of discovery and diversity.
If meeting Uluru is like encountering one person; Kata Tjuta is like discovering community.
Uluru and Kata Tjuta are distinct experiences, each valuable for their
own reasons – each inviting us to discover them for who they are.
Uluru appears to be one entity, though we soon discover its many diverse aspects and stories. It is as beautifully singular but complex as any one person.
Kata Tjuta is different: many entities, many angles, many lives. Its long and diverse profile beckons from far off. ‘Don’t just look; enter in, be among us’.
Walking into Kata Tjuta is to wander between massive rocks and along hidden valleys. It encloses us in cloistered canyons then throws us into outback horizons. Azure blue sky weave between iron red sands and grey basalt boulders.
Life isn’t only lived large, it is also small and beautiful. The Pink Mulla Mulla flower thrives here in delicate abundance.
To ‘take in’ Kata Tjuta is akin to taking in a community:
- Let an open discovering lead us; we won’t know much of what’s within unless we walk into encountering. How do I feel about encountering a new community?
- Views change as the journey continues. We are invited to see the same scene from more angles. How firmly do I hold to my ‘views’?
- Life finds ways to live. It rises in cracks, crevices or plains. Valleys capture water for life that then reaches skyward. What ‘life’ is being offered to me within a hard place?
- Being present within this community of nature takes ‘stepping up’. Am I being invited to a new experience of community?
I celebrate this place. It invites me to grow in community that also holds, nourishes, and shelters us.
Link to the Kata Tjuta photo gallery.
Link to the NT Outback gallery.