This week, cold winter rains brought the spectacular waterfalls at Uluru back to life for a day.
Many people visit Uluru to see its changing, red colours at sunset. But the rarer sight of white waterfalls cascading down this ancient, sculpted rock can be even more spectacular. And it’s immortalised in the famous John Williamson song Raining on the Rock.
With only around 300mm of rainfall falling in an average year at Uluru and throughout much of arid central Australia, it’s not easy to predict when you’ll see waterfalls here. The strongest rains typically occur in the warmer, summer months, from October to March.
But waterfalls can also be seen in winter, from May to August. And when it does rain in these cooler months, it can transform the whole landscape with carpets of wildflowers emerging in August and September before the summer heat returns.
