The Uluru camp sites and the barbecues familiar to scavenging dingoes in the 1980s are now demolished to remove visitors into the faraway Yulara complex, and the old sites have grown back into the landscape of red sand plain and dune, but occasional willie-willies will uncover a concrete slab that was at one time the base for an ablution block, or a timber flitch that once did duty as a marker for the parking of campervans or bounding tent sites. 

August is a gentle month in the Centre. Visitors expect a warm easterly breeze of an afternoon, dropping out at dusk to calm evenings. As it was when the yellow Torana hatchback turned in here, carrying the Chamberlain family, Lindy nursing her sleeping babe, Pastor Michael driving, and the two young boys Aiden and Reagan.