Omg! We just had the most thrilling, exciting and memorable experience ever!

It all started when I decided that we should head out to Uluru to see if there was raining out at Uluru. It had been raining consistently for a few hours at the campsite and the sun was starting to set so we made the spontaneous decision to head out to see the sunset and see if it was raining at Uluru.

The drive in felt like forever, I bounced up and down eager to reach the rock. We stopped briefly at the sunset lookout, but we still weren’t close enough to tell if there was water flowing down it. So we raced off again to the Mutitjula waterhole hoping that was our best chance to spot water.

As we drove around the second last bend we saw it! Water! Wonderful flowing water down the middle of Uluru.

My heart was instantly filled with so much joy and disbelief that I could possibly be witnessing this amazing moment in nature’s history.

Seeing rain is rare enough out here let alone seeing water gushing down on this amazing rock.

We pulled up knowing we were fighting time to walk to the waterfall and waterhole before the sun had gone down completely.

We marched off, well… I may have been slightly galloping and jumping over all the puddles in my path. I got to the waterhole in record time. And low and behold there in front of me was the purest sight ever. There was water everywhere. A creek was running alongside the edge of the rock and a huge waterhole had formed under the waterfall. The water was creeping higher every second and I very quickly realized that I had to get a photo and get out out of there before the whole platform I was standing on flooded.

We dashed back along the track that was covered with large puddles, trying to beat the water rising and the lack of sun in the sky. We could see the car 100m ahead, but then lightning started all around us, above us and across the sky. My heart was racing and so was my legs trying to get back to the car before we were hit by lightning.

Relief came when we got into the car and could breath again. We drove off knowing we would have to take the long route back all the way around the rock as it was the safest route out. We had spotted just that very morning a tree had been struck by lightning next to the road in the other direction. So the long way around was our best bet. Lightning was still hitting from behind, in front and above the rock as we drove around it, we hoped that we would not be the next thing to be hit.

The further we were away from the storm the calmer I slowly became. Then the realization hit me that I had just witnessed one of the most spectacular events in history and I am forever grateful for this time spent in the red centre and in the presence of Uluru especially when it was pouring with waterfalls!