We awoke to discover that it was still too windy and in the wrong direction to travel to Coober Pedy so we paid for another night. After breakfast, I did some reading on the local area and discovered that Mt Olga, the tallest peak in the Olgas (Kata Tjuta) that we saw on Tuesday, is 206 metres taller than Uluru – which was a surprise. Even Mt Connor, that we can see from the caravan park and is actually part of the Curtin Springs Cattle Station property, is 6 metres taller than Uluru, at 354 metres. It isn’t a monolith (a single large rock), though, but a 700 million year old sandstone mesa. It was named by the explorer William Gosse in 1873. Having read about Mt Connor, I suggested to Barry that we go and
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