Uluru's dormant waterfalls have been brought to life by a splash of rain in the region.
The weather bureau recorded 14 millimetres at the desert icon in the 24 hours leading up to 9am Thursday.
Parks Australia Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park representative Steve Baldwin said cloud cover had affected visibility of the rock.
"I'm just outside, a few hundred meters away from the rock and probably a third of [it] is completely covered by cloud," he said.
Mr Baldwin said the rain had not stopped people from visiting.
"What it does is, it attracts people," he said.
"You would think that people would stay away when there's wet weather but we had over 50 people on our Mala walk this morning," he said.
Mr Baldwin said that most of the waterfalls were on the eastern side of Uluru.
"That's where you see literally between 10 and 20 waterfalls and the largest one at Kantju Gorge," he said.
Mr Baldwin said only one in 100 people got to see rain on the rock.
"It is absolutely phenomenal because the noise and the visual spectacle is just something you can't experience anywhere else."
Emotional experience
Frequent visitor John Carty said he had been to Uluru about 20 times and had dreamed about seeing it in the wet.
He said it was the most beautiful thing he had seen.
"You're seeing the passage of time as you're seeing the trickle of water that has shaped this monolith over millions of years," he said.
Mr Carty said it was an emotional experience.
"It felt strangely intimate," he said.
"Everyone was walking around the Uluru smiling like children."
