British Artist Bruce Munro visited Uluru and was inspired by the stark desert and the clear sky. He took a bulb like this, put it on a stem, and the field of lights was born. For this installation, there are over 50,000 lights in all sorts of colors, tied together by miles of fiber optic cabling, and run totally by solar power. The result is amazing.
My pictures cannot begin to capture it. (This is one time where I wished I had one of the new IPhones with super cameras.)
These were shot with a hand-held camera. Sometimes the movement is mine, in other pictures it is the fiber optic cables that create the spiderwebs. Google Bruce Munro if you want to see how it really looks.
Scott got out there in the field on his scooter, and I only had to push him out of the sand twice! When we got back to the bus, there was an extra person there... the night watchman, he said. It became clear as others talked to him his job was snake wrangler.
He explained that they have installed a series of electronic spikes that emit a sound the snakes don't like (kind of like the electonic mouse repellers that we have at the Oregon house). Most of the time they seem to work, but they had reports that in the area we were, a couple of snakes just wrapped themselves around the spike. He was telling us all about the reptiles in the area... including the iguana the staff had named George, who spends the day on the ramp to the viewing area.
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