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Susan Chambers stood on the public viewing platform and stared mesmerised at the huge geographical feature in front of her. Chambers Pillar, formed by sandstone sediments laid down some three-hundred-and-fifty-million years ago, towered 50 metres above the surrounding hot, dry, desert plains. This magnificent, imposing land feature, almost dead centre in the middle of the Australian continent was, Susan believed, a direct link to her family’s ancestry. She found it hard to believe that she was really here. But for the viewing platform, she was so close she could almost reach out and touch it. She craned her neck and slowly ran her eyes up the massive side of the pillar to the very top. It was like a great, natural monument connecting the earth on which it stood to the heavens above. Alt
