I still remember the artistic device that is often utilised when depicting fading landscapes, mountains in particular. The colours are becoming more faint and taking on blue hues. Our teacher called this ‘blueing of the landscape’. The famous blue mountains near Sydney have coincidentally named according to such a phenomenon and incidentally found itself the…
Road Trip Day 15 – Lovely Litchfield National Park
[:gb]I feel like Rerun from the Peanuts. You know the dirty one with the flies buzzing around him all the time. Even when they try to wash him, he instantly returns to his old state. That’s how I feel. Even after coming out of the shower or swimming pools do I feel dirty. It is…
Road Trip Day 14 – Hello again, Kakadu
[:gb]Having survived the nightly wallaby gang roundup, I woke up still sleepy for the next exploration around wonderful Kakadu. My tiredness certainly didn’t help clumbering up the rocky and nearly nonexistent path up to Gunlom Falls. Had I known what was in store, I would have quickened my pace. But that wouldn’t have been a…
What to Visit in Taupo
[:gb]Taupo is a picturesque town situated by the lake of the same name, which s Maori for ‘cloak’. It was given to this place when a mighty chief discovered the lake and mountains for the first time and was instantly reminded of the cloak he wore. [:de]Taupo ist ein bildschönes Örtchen, das an einem See…
