WHEN THE RAIN CAME DOWN - Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia

Hi, here's a few of my videos from my geology work trip to Yulara in 2007. I was the onsite supervisor and geologist and am pleased to say the project went smoothly except for maybe some rather unexpected weather...less than 2% of people visiting Uluru see this event. The amount of water coming of Uluru was pushing the air back from the rock and bending the trees - see video.

This visit was a trip of a lifetime, I was only 21 at the time. I graduated from the Diploma of Geoscience at O'Halloran Hill TAFE, Adelaide, South Australia in 2005.

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[CambrianGeologyRocks]

The day before I filmed Uluru in flood, the local children at the first sight of rain were playing and swiming under the waterfalls. There are also many caves around the rock that are still used as shelters. I stayed in the area for 8 days and I felt that despite an increase in tourism, Uluru had still kept a sense of ancient history, culture and spirit.

[aduiel]

Wow, thank you for sharing this!

[TheKezanator]

@CambrianGeologyRocks I've just visited Uluru and was sooo amazed and overwhelmed. The day i was there there was a thunder storm brewing... i wish i had more time to see if there would be enough rain on the rock to make waterfalls... you were sooo lucky!!!!!

[ebnysoul]

I just stumbled across this World Wonder in a game & by curiousity looked up information on it. I had never heard of it before this but am so very glad I found all these videos on here to show it to me as this one made me feel like I was truly there & could smell the wetness on the rocks. Its natural beauty is spellbinding but even more spellbinding is its aboriginie ties & history. Thank you for posting this. I will always remember seing this paticular video.

[guodade]

This year, 640 millimetres of rain has fallen in ten months in Alice Springs, which with two months to go is at least the fourth wettest calendar year on record. (The record for 12-months period is just over a metre from July 1920 to June 1921).

In 2009, only 77 millimetres fell which is the second driest calendar year on record, so nobody would ever have seen it rain. In any case, because most rain falls in the dreadfully hot summer, people would not want to see it!

[missdeebates]

thanks so much for posting this , anyone who has ever been to Uluru will appreciate seeing it in the rain with waterfalls , I sat in that place, imagining it with water and with aboriginals warriors celebrating there , awesome place , mindblowing .

[Canberraboy100]

Totally awesome m8.

[Wallabytrack]

Yes, it is Majic , its a fact that about only 3% of tourists ever see rain on the rock

[missdeebates]

my soul cries for the indigenous people missing from this scene , for 40,000 years they would have celebrated the rain at this the most spiritual of places , they would have danced and played here , swam and celebrated their ancient rictuals at this place , alas no more , they have been displaced bought off with au$200 a fortnight moved into shanty towns and kept down with alchohol and nicotine , and are no longer apparent in this their holy place , its a SHAME

[SauronsEye]

I missed the rain on Uluru by a day in December 2009. I was there the day before and was back in Alice Springs and heard on the news that massive rains dropped over the rock.