Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

Traveling by kayak through Katherine Gorge, in Australia?s northern Outback, I've been listening to a guide explain how Australia is an ancient continent with aboriginal people first arriving 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. He tells my family and me a story of oceans rising and falling with the changing of the ice ages, altering the rugged coast by hundreds of miles from its current position. These ancient forces work together to mold the diverse landscape, creating a home for unique flora and fauna. Looking out to my right it dawns on me how important water is to this driest continent and with the morning fog lifting off of the water, in that one surreal instant before the blazing outback sun hits the earth, the land is primordial, peaceful and surreal.