Mount Conner/Lake Amadeus - A brothers Tale

Feb 24th. On the coach journey back to Alice Springs, we stop off and clamber up a sand dune and get a great view of Mount Conner and also a salt lake (Lake Amadeus) with a small mound in it. Mount Conner is sometimes known as 'Foolaru' as some tourists see it and think they have seen Uluru.

The aboriginal tale goes as follows :- 2 brothers go out into the outback one day - 1 of them has all the skills to provide for himself, the younger one doesn't have the skills yet. The older brother leaves the younger one to fend for himself and eventually becomes sick, the older brother lays him down to rest using Mount conner as a bed (His neck rests on the depression on the right hand side) but he never recovers and dies there. The older brother carries his body over to the lake on the other side and he is buried in the small mound there. The salt lake is created from the older brothers tears.