Chambers Pillar is one of the lesser known attractions in the outback, but it is just as, or even more interesting than Ayers Rock.
   Chambers Pillar is a Historical Reserve, which is a kind of National Park. I had seen pictures of the Pillar, but did not think that much of it before I saw it. As you get closer to it, you realise that it is much bigger than you can tell from the photos. It is quite amazing with a huge, solid, limestone finger pointing right up in the air in the middle of the desert. Next to the Pillar is Castle Rock, another remarkable rock formation.
   The Pillar as every other place in the Outback, has a Dreamtime story attached to itself. For the first white pioneers travelling into the country it used to be an important landmark. Many of the pioneers like police sergeants, villains, and cattle drovers have carved their initials into the sandstone. So has Eejits like American Bob from Ohio 1973.
   The nature out in the Simpson Desert is fantastic with rusty red sand dunes, golden Spinifex Grass, hardy Mulga Trees, and my favourites, the slender Desert Oaks. There is something slightly eerie about the place with the stark image of the Pillar and the wind whispering in the beautiful Desert Oaks.