March 27
Well for the last 2 days we spent mostly in Kakadoo National Park in the Northern Territory. This is supposed to be thee best park in the Northern Territory, but unfortunately it was not as impressive as they say, at least not for me. This could be for several reasons, but one of them may be that due to the fact that it is still the wet season, most of the park is still closed. I think it would be much more impressive if I could have seen more of it. The aboriginal rock art was very cool to see, but the swimming holes were the same as Litchfield, and thus cannot be seen as special.
Kakadoo became know worldwide because of the aboriginal rock art there, but more recently as being the place where crocodile Dundee was filmed. I spent a while looking at the aboriginal rock art when a tour group came up and the guid told the story the art told, then he told me that this art is over 1000 years old. I snorted a bit as one of the ladies said "The paint looks incredibly good for 1000 years old" The guide replied "Doesn't it though, it has survived the exposure to the elements." That is when I started to laugh and had to walk away for a few minutes. I later ran into that lady and she asked my why I was laughing at that. I told her to read the sign on the path on the way back. That is when you will find out the the paintings date back to around a thousand years ago, but this one in particular was re-painted in 1964 by one of the aboriginals. It is actually a common practice for them, they re-paint the fading colours to help preserve their history, but I couldn't stop myself laughing at the guide, who I wonder if he read the sign or just refused to tell everyone the whole truth. I went back to the painting as Chris, Niko, and Mark went to got see a look out. I starred at one of the paintings a while remembering the story the guide told me and wondered how acurate it was. 
Story's get distorted over time, some get lost and others spring up to replace it, but mostly each person who tells it adds or takes away from the original. If you weren't there the day the painting was first put on the wall, you don't know what it actually means. I think back to other older writings, and how they are finding different meanings and different interpretations to those same stories, Troy, the bible, even Dracula and Frankenstien. The meaning has changed over time so I looked at the painting and wondered at what story I would make for this painting if I were someone who just stumbled accross it. I am still working on the story, and I might get it up shrotly if I can get it down. Will get back to everyone later about that. So we spent the first night in Kakadoo, and then went swimming in of the park's water holes the next morning. It wasn't spectacular by any means, Litchfield was simmilair, and I love Karinjini way better, just for the cool walkes to get down into the pools. We drove down to Katherine and then on special request out to Kathrine Gorge where we walked an hour out to one of the coolest pools I have yet to swim in, or more importantly dive in. I finally found my cliff dive. It was only about 5 meters high, but it was so fun, especially with the water fall in the background. 
I climbed up the rock face, and threw myself off almost instantly diving into the water, and god did that feel good. The air rushing past your ears as you speed towards the water, and the calm just before the impact. We took lots of pictures, incuding this one by me in the water. 
Best shot of the day by far. Anyway we swam for a while before packing up for the walk back to the car. Chris, and his new Henchman Niko decided they wanted to take the shortcut. It was already 6:00, and I was looking at what they were calling a short cut. I looked at Chris and gave him a look of "I don't like this idea." and voiced my disaproval starting with the fact that:
A. It was late in the evening and the sun sets early here
B. The path is an easy walk and if it get's dark, we can still follow it back to the car.
C. There is a water tank on the path that we can re-fill our water, as I was starting to run low
D. The short cut they want to take was going to be cross country several killometers over heavily rocked terrain with some rather deadly snakes, and our footware is tenis shoes
E. Knowone knows we are out here
F. It is 37 degrees out here, and the rocks will be radiating the heat like a hot BBQ
G. This sounds like a really stupid idea
20 minutes later I was contemplating how much fun it would be to beat the crap out of Chris when I get over these stupid boulders. Of course I was right on all fronts, the rocks were hot, the grass was sharp and slowly filleting my calves every time I had to walk though it. The terrain was rocks, boulders and sharp ledges, I was able to avoid the snakes, barely, I twisted my ankle 3 times, I ran out of water, and the mythical path was knoware in sight. 1 hour later I was getting concerned, we still hadn't found the path, I stopped sweating 20 minutes ago and my mouth was dry (early sign of dyhydration), concentrating where to put my feet was becomeing a challenge, and the sun was very low on the horizon. I told Chris he had 10 minutes to find the path as we have only 15 minutes of sunlight left. Chris said Naw, we got about an hour. I was right again, as 15 minutes later it was dark, and I was making a running inventory of whbat I had for survival gear. This was limmited to, a towel, shorts, shirt, 2 digital cameras, an empty water bottle, a set of rather useless car keys, and 2 very soon to be dead idiots leading the way. This is when we finaly found the path and our brainless leaders of Chris and Niko sumbled onto the path as me and Mark brought up the fumming rear. We then had to finish the last half hour walk back to the car using the path. Total time for return walk with "Chris's Shrotcut" 2 hours. Time to walk that same distance using path 1 hour. Adam Not Happy. I drank about 3 liters of water in the next hour. It was 8:00 and we still hadn't had supper yet and Chris pulled anouther great idea out of his ass. Well let's have some sandwiches then we can drive for anouther 2 hours to this free turn out 160km away. I resisted the urge to roundhouse Chris and used my veto power. "We are staying here tonight." I said pointing to the campground. "I am good for anouther 2 hours of driving" he said. I, now ignoring everything Chris says, re-verberated my earlier decision to stay here the night and that if he wanted to get to that pullout he could start walking, because me and my car were stopping for the night. So we checked in and paid for camping, something Chris wasn't happy about and started making supper, which was very greasy sausages and hambergers. I ate them, and then felt ill, I can't eat this kind of crap anymore, I don't care if it is cheap, it isn't really worth saving 2 bucks if I gain a shit load of weight from eating it. Chris said said that I had to be respeactful of everyone elses buget, I replied that if anyone didn't like my budget for healthier food that they (including himself), can get out of MY car and find a ride with a fat trucker. I think I will make couscouse tommorow. I came to a realization today, I have definately gained weight since I came over here, and it is definately becasue of the very shitty cheap food that we have been eating in order to save money. Time to change that, with a little help from Lena and Ella's cooking clases I attended for a short time. Let's see how well I learned. Anyway 15 minutes after sitting down for supper Chris was having a hard time keeping his eyes open, once again Adam was right, 2 hours my ass.
Creation story
There once was a creature named Todd, he walked the Earth with his lover creation. It was full of all things, stars, moon, sun, mountains, oceans, lands, rivers and all things that inhabited them. All things were in balance but one day a child came from the love between Creation and Todd, and her name was Junis. Junis grew slow from a child, but she grew none the less, learning everything her father taught her, for Todd was knowledge. When she came to the age of 8 she wandered to the edge of the ocean and met the first fish. Fish were one of the first things creation built, and she gave them to much power, for they were an important link in the food chains of many things, especially when the earth was completely covered in water before creation made land. When fish realized this they started using this power and became guardinans of water, and in so doing, the guardians of the underworld. Creation tried to slow their power and created land many years before, somewhere fish could not go. But Junis learned to dance with the fish, and the fish loved her for it. Junis danced, painted, swam and played with the fish for many years, until her 15th birthday. While she walked atop the mountain alone she became lonely and wished for friends. She called to her mother asking for friends, but her mother was afraid to create anouther creature as powerful fish, so she refused. Todd understood his daughter and knew that she was young and would try to do so on her own. He arrived to late though to stop her, and arrived as his daughter created the first humans, but they were mindless husks and could not think, or move, or do anything. They just stood, staring. Junis was young and could not understand what went wrong, she tried impulsivly to make them talk, so that they could be friends, but she could not make them talk. She gave them ears to hear her, mouths to talk with, but still they would not move or talk. Todd grabbed his daughters hand and she begged him to fix them, Todd could sence a change with his daughter and gave her creations knowledge. Todd could feel his daughters life force change. She had given her creation to much of her own life force, and now she was slowly dying, it would not be soon, but she would die. Her mothe,r furious at what her daughter had done, and that she had modeled he creations on her own image forced her daughter inland to live with her people. She did not know that her daughter was dying. 80 years later Todd came to his lover and told her that her daughter was dying. Creation returned to earth and saw how her daughters people lived, they could not create like her, but they could alter things using Todd's knowledge. Creation still could not meet her daughter directly, so she only looked on as she wandered out of her hut old, grey, and withered. Not knowing what to do Creation wandered to the ocean where she met the first fish. She asked the fish if they would take care of her daughter, as she still loved her. The fish said that because land was not their domain they could not. So when her daughter stood moments from death Creation looked on with grief and fear. Todd came and told her to make it rain, cover the land with water so that the fish could come and take their daughter to the land beyond, or else she will just fade away into eternity. So creation created clouds and made it rain, it rained, and rained, and it rained. Soon water covered the land in long ribbons that curved from the highest mountain through the plains and out into the ocean. All manner of sea life came into these rivers, crocodiles, shrimp, and fish. The first fish himself swam up the rivers to the village to collect his old friend Junis. Junis waded into the water, as all her friends, and their children watched the first fish carry her away to the ocean. Creation reached out wishing to hold her daughter again, but Todd held her back. Creation reached out a second time, but Todd held her back again, for she has gone beyond creations reach. Creation wept at the loss of her daughter, and her tears burned Todd for emotion and knowledge are opposites, and then they rained down on the friends of Junis, and that is how creation gave humans emotion. To this day in the mountains above the ocean in the Kakadoo range the land will flood and the fish will come to take all the souls that died in the last year to the ocean where they enter the underworld, and am greated by Junis, their creator, their friend.
Well for the last 2 days we spent mostly in Kakadoo National Park in the Northern Territory. This is supposed to be thee best park in the Northern Territory, but unfortunately it was not as impressive as they say, at least not for me. This could be for several reasons, but one of them may be that due to the fact that it is still the wet season, most of the park is still closed. I think it would be much more impressive if I could have seen more of it. The aboriginal rock art was very cool to see, but the swimming holes were the same as Litchfield, and thus cannot be seen as special.
Kakadoo became know worldwide because of the aboriginal rock art there, but more recently as being the place where crocodile Dundee was filmed. I spent a while looking at the aboriginal rock art when a tour group came up and the guid told the story the art told, then he told me that this art is over 1000 years old. I snorted a bit as one of the ladies said "The paint looks incredibly good for 1000 years old" The guide replied "Doesn't it though, it has survived the exposure to the elements." That is when I started to laugh and had to walk away for a few minutes. I later ran into that lady and she asked my why I was laughing at that. I told her to read the sign on the path on the way back. That is when you will find out the the paintings date back to around a thousand years ago, but this one in particular was re-painted in 1964 by one of the aboriginals. It is actually a common practice for them, they re-paint the fading colours to help preserve their history, but I couldn't stop myself laughing at the guide, who I wonder if he read the sign or just refused to tell everyone the whole truth. I went back to the painting as Chris, Niko, and Mark went to got see a look out. I starred at one of the paintings a while remembering the story the guide told me and wondered how acurate it was. Story's get distorted over time, some get lost and others spring up to replace it, but mostly each person who tells it adds or takes away from the original. If you weren't there the day the painting was first put on the wall, you don't know what it actually means. I think back to other older writings, and how they are finding different meanings and different interpretations to those same stories, Troy, the bible, even Dracula and Frankenstien. The meaning has changed over time so I looked at the painting and wondered at what story I would make for this painting if I were someone who just stumbled accross it. I am still working on the story, and I might get it up shrotly if I can get it down. Will get back to everyone later about that. So we spent the first night in Kakadoo, and then went swimming in of the park's water holes the next morning. It wasn't spectacular by any means, Litchfield was simmilair, and I love Karinjini way better, just for the cool walkes to get down into the pools. We drove down to Katherine and then on special request out to Kathrine Gorge where we walked an hour out to one of the coolest pools I have yet to swim in, or more importantly dive in. I finally found my cliff dive. It was only about 5 meters high, but it was so fun, especially with the water fall in the background. I climbed up the rock face, and threw myself off almost instantly diving into the water, and god did that feel good. The air rushing past your ears as you speed towards the water, and the calm just before the impact. We took lots of pictures, incuding this one by me in the water. Best shot of the day by far. Anyway we swam for a while before packing up for the walk back to the car. Chris, and his new Henchman Niko decided they wanted to take the shortcut. It was already 6:00, and I was looking at what they were calling a short cut. I looked at Chris and gave him a look of "I don't like this idea." and voiced my disaproval starting with the fact that:A. It was late in the evening and the sun sets early here
B. The path is an easy walk and if it get's dark, we can still follow it back to the car.
C. There is a water tank on the path that we can re-fill our water, as I was starting to run low
D. The short cut they want to take was going to be cross country several killometers over heavily rocked terrain with some rather deadly snakes, and our footware is tenis shoes
E. Knowone knows we are out here
F. It is 37 degrees out here, and the rocks will be radiating the heat like a hot BBQ
G. This sounds like a really stupid idea
20 minutes later I was contemplating how much fun it would be to beat the crap out of Chris when I get over these stupid boulders. Of course I was right on all fronts, the rocks were hot, the grass was sharp and slowly filleting my calves every time I had to walk though it. The terrain was rocks, boulders and sharp ledges, I was able to avoid the snakes, barely, I twisted my ankle 3 times, I ran out of water, and the mythical path was knoware in sight. 1 hour later I was getting concerned, we still hadn't found the path, I stopped sweating 20 minutes ago and my mouth was dry (early sign of dyhydration), concentrating where to put my feet was becomeing a challenge, and the sun was very low on the horizon. I told Chris he had 10 minutes to find the path as we have only 15 minutes of sunlight left. Chris said Naw, we got about an hour. I was right again, as 15 minutes later it was dark, and I was making a running inventory of whbat I had for survival gear. This was limmited to, a towel, shorts, shirt, 2 digital cameras, an empty water bottle, a set of rather useless car keys, and 2 very soon to be dead idiots leading the way. This is when we finaly found the path and our brainless leaders of Chris and Niko sumbled onto the path as me and Mark brought up the fumming rear. We then had to finish the last half hour walk back to the car using the path. Total time for return walk with "Chris's Shrotcut" 2 hours. Time to walk that same distance using path 1 hour. Adam Not Happy. I drank about 3 liters of water in the next hour. It was 8:00 and we still hadn't had supper yet and Chris pulled anouther great idea out of his ass. Well let's have some sandwiches then we can drive for anouther 2 hours to this free turn out 160km away. I resisted the urge to roundhouse Chris and used my veto power. "We are staying here tonight." I said pointing to the campground. "I am good for anouther 2 hours of driving" he said. I, now ignoring everything Chris says, re-verberated my earlier decision to stay here the night and that if he wanted to get to that pullout he could start walking, because me and my car were stopping for the night. So we checked in and paid for camping, something Chris wasn't happy about and started making supper, which was very greasy sausages and hambergers. I ate them, and then felt ill, I can't eat this kind of crap anymore, I don't care if it is cheap, it isn't really worth saving 2 bucks if I gain a shit load of weight from eating it. Chris said said that I had to be respeactful of everyone elses buget, I replied that if anyone didn't like my budget for healthier food that they (including himself), can get out of MY car and find a ride with a fat trucker. I think I will make couscouse tommorow. I came to a realization today, I have definately gained weight since I came over here, and it is definately becasue of the very shitty cheap food that we have been eating in order to save money. Time to change that, with a little help from Lena and Ella's cooking clases I attended for a short time. Let's see how well I learned. Anyway 15 minutes after sitting down for supper Chris was having a hard time keeping his eyes open, once again Adam was right, 2 hours my ass.
Creation story
There once was a creature named Todd, he walked the Earth with his lover creation. It was full of all things, stars, moon, sun, mountains, oceans, lands, rivers and all things that inhabited them. All things were in balance but one day a child came from the love between Creation and Todd, and her name was Junis. Junis grew slow from a child, but she grew none the less, learning everything her father taught her, for Todd was knowledge. When she came to the age of 8 she wandered to the edge of the ocean and met the first fish. Fish were one of the first things creation built, and she gave them to much power, for they were an important link in the food chains of many things, especially when the earth was completely covered in water before creation made land. When fish realized this they started using this power and became guardinans of water, and in so doing, the guardians of the underworld. Creation tried to slow their power and created land many years before, somewhere fish could not go. But Junis learned to dance with the fish, and the fish loved her for it. Junis danced, painted, swam and played with the fish for many years, until her 15th birthday. While she walked atop the mountain alone she became lonely and wished for friends. She called to her mother asking for friends, but her mother was afraid to create anouther creature as powerful fish, so she refused. Todd understood his daughter and knew that she was young and would try to do so on her own. He arrived to late though to stop her, and arrived as his daughter created the first humans, but they were mindless husks and could not think, or move, or do anything. They just stood, staring. Junis was young and could not understand what went wrong, she tried impulsivly to make them talk, so that they could be friends, but she could not make them talk. She gave them ears to hear her, mouths to talk with, but still they would not move or talk. Todd grabbed his daughters hand and she begged him to fix them, Todd could sence a change with his daughter and gave her creations knowledge. Todd could feel his daughters life force change. She had given her creation to much of her own life force, and now she was slowly dying, it would not be soon, but she would die. Her mothe,r furious at what her daughter had done, and that she had modeled he creations on her own image forced her daughter inland to live with her people. She did not know that her daughter was dying. 80 years later Todd came to his lover and told her that her daughter was dying. Creation returned to earth and saw how her daughters people lived, they could not create like her, but they could alter things using Todd's knowledge. Creation still could not meet her daughter directly, so she only looked on as she wandered out of her hut old, grey, and withered. Not knowing what to do Creation wandered to the ocean where she met the first fish. She asked the fish if they would take care of her daughter, as she still loved her. The fish said that because land was not their domain they could not. So when her daughter stood moments from death Creation looked on with grief and fear. Todd came and told her to make it rain, cover the land with water so that the fish could come and take their daughter to the land beyond, or else she will just fade away into eternity. So creation created clouds and made it rain, it rained, and rained, and it rained. Soon water covered the land in long ribbons that curved from the highest mountain through the plains and out into the ocean. All manner of sea life came into these rivers, crocodiles, shrimp, and fish. The first fish himself swam up the rivers to the village to collect his old friend Junis. Junis waded into the water, as all her friends, and their children watched the first fish carry her away to the ocean. Creation reached out wishing to hold her daughter again, but Todd held her back. Creation reached out a second time, but Todd held her back again, for she has gone beyond creations reach. Creation wept at the loss of her daughter, and her tears burned Todd for emotion and knowledge are opposites, and then they rained down on the friends of Junis, and that is how creation gave humans emotion. To this day in the mountains above the ocean in the Kakadoo range the land will flood and the fish will come to take all the souls that died in the last year to the ocean where they enter the underworld, and am greated by Junis, their creator, their friend.
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