If only I had actually gone off to work at finding a gold nugget, then maybe I'd be laying on the beach right now without a care in the world... But as it stands, I did not put much work into that at all and I'm still a student trying to get money the old-fashioned way--or at least trying to get to the point where I can. Anyway, I don't mean to keep any of you waiting because if you thought Day 1 was just awesome-and I know you did-then you are just going to love Day 2! The day started off, as Mom would say, at the crack of dawn with a warm shower and a nice breakfast. (I'm not sure where to put this little side-note, but here looks good. Anyway if it weren't for Dad always saying, "We'll have to get going, as your Mom would say, 'at the crack of dawn,'" then I would never know that she says that. The end.) We left the school for a place called Menzies, a tiny town of about 100 people in the middle of even more nowhere. Here we met with a town planner who told us about stuff and then looked at some Aboriginal art. The art was pretty cool, and it looked something like this:
Figure 1 Aboriginal Painting. The first image that appears when you Google image search "Aboriginal Painting."
Figure 2 Menzies. A look down the main road through Menzies.
From Menzies we continued on about 55km to our next stop, Lake Ballard. Now, Lake Ballard isn't your run-of-the-mill-let's-go-out-and-waterski lake, it's a salt lake. But that's not all. It is also a dried up salt lake. So really it's not a lake at all... just a vast empty space. But a cool vast empty space. The ground was covered in salt that actually tasted like pretty good salt. It looked like snow at some points and felt like walking in squishy clay with a little crunch on the top. We walked around barefoot and it felt like a marvelous foot massage, at least what I imagine a marvelous foot massage to feel like... Anywho, Lake Ballard isn't your run-of-the-mill-dried-up-salt lake either, it's home to an exhibition titled "Inside Australia." This exhibition features 51 statues made by the world-renowned artist Anthony Gormly-maybe you've heard of him. These 51 statues were made using laser scans of the people from Menzies. I don't know about you, but I have no idea how they got the statue below came out of a laser scan of a real person, but I guess it did. All of the statues pretty much looked like this, unless they were dudes. And no, I am not wearing capris... just trying to keep the jeans clean.
The dried up salt lake was actually a lot of fun, believe it or not. The only bad part was cleaning off our feet at the end, though it was totally worth it. Once we were finished here, we went on to some random place to go on a little bit of a nature walk through the bush. This is what the outback looks like for the most part; red dirt and bushes.
We returned home after about a 2.5km walk and went out for dinner about an hour later. Dinner was wonderful and Day 2 came to an end.
3 comments:
Umm Breana? Did you see Sean trying to put the moves on that girl made out of wood? That's not cool, dude. She wasn't even cute. Well, not that cute. At least not as cute as Breana.
Don't judge... you don't know her. And, she's made of steel... or something else that's really hard.
I know, I let him out of my sight for one weekend and he's checking out prostitutes and groping statues. Perhaps I finally gave him too much attitude, so now he's looking for a girl that won't talk back. Oh well...thanks for sticking up for me Jared!
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