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Published: November 30th 2008
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ah shucks...i truley wish i could be in several places at once. Cause there is no question i would love to attend the float trip even though i am surrounded by deep sea diving and outback safari's. If another one happens towards the end of august i am game. Anywho, i am back from yet another outback adventure. This time we were in the tropical Top End of australia in some of the largest national parks called kakadu and litchfield. These are full of wildlife and climate change. Some of the main features of the trip were relaxing in some waterfalls and various rock pools. We also went on a crocodile cruise. These are extremely popular up here as this area is one of the main sections were saltwater crocs slip into the bogs and billabongs of the inland. It was a very beautiful area to see crocs in their natural environment. wild flowers and giant birds zipping around with the chance wallaby(small kangaroo) bouncing along in the distance. At one of our camps, I had been slowly creeping up on wallaby to try and snap a brilliant photo...when one just walked straight up to me. Very
Nice! This one apparently
has been hand feed for awhile so is not at all afraid of us. Needless to say this was massively cute and fun to feed this guy a nice apple. We also saw some aboriginal rock art. This is quite similar to the ancient caveman art. Stick figures and animals representing various tasks they did in their lives. The most impressive part was that some of them are up to 60,000 years old. wowzers.
The hard part about this region it seems, is that it is quite hard to appreciate its best quality. We watched a video about the 6 seasons of the top end...which basically include a massive and complete flooding of everything...with massive heat and humidity, then a sudden stop of rain...so the water gradually evaporates to nothing...turning everything into a horrible dry land...then the electrical storms come and torch all of this dry scrub, burning nearly 2/3rds of it away until the giant floods come again. Pretty amazing, and nearly impossible to grasp just being here for a few days.
A personal sort of revalation happened as well. Just being around all of this amazing landscape and adventure I have gradually started to decide that I want
to do as much natural adventure as i can. This has evolved even further just recently. After watching that Top end australia video...which showed all the amazing climate changes of the area...they eventually showed some of the behind the scenes of how the captured such amazing footage. This has happened at several of the omnimax-type nature shows we have scene..most of which have had really good music. So all of this has persuaded me to think that I might want to explore a career like this. going out with the video guys and trying to capture the sounds and then take it home and do the music. This may not be quite as glorious as recording rock bands or whatever...but it gets me excited. Combining all sorts of things i love. ok. thats enough for me today. I am almost certain I will be home around aug16-17 time...so hopefully i will see some of yall. ROCK!
brad
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