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Trip of a lifetime

A student in between semesters could go to the Gold Coast or maybe spent some time with friends, which is great fun. However, read Bert's blog if you want to go on a trip of a lifetime. Because you will understand why you should spend some time in the outback and experience the vast greatness of this continent. As Australia's famous poet Marcus Clarke wrote beautifully:

In Australia alone is to be found the Grotesque,
the Weird, the strange scribblings of Nature learning how to write.
 
Some see no beauty in our trees without shade,
our flowers without perfume, our birds who cannot fly,
and our beasts who have not yet learned to walk on all fours.
 
But the dweller in the wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm
of this fantastic land of monstrosities.
 
He becomes familiar with the beauty of loneliness.
 
Whispered to by the myriad tongues of the wilderness,
he learns the language of the barren and the uncouth,
and can read the hieroglyphs of haggard gum-trees,
blown into odd shapes distorted with fierce hot winds,
or cramped with cold nights,
when the Southern Cross freezes in a cloudless sky of icy blue.
 
The phantasmagoria of that wild dreamland termed the Bush interprets itself,
and the Poet of our desolation begins to comprehend
why free Esau loved his heritage of desert sand,
better than all the bountiful richness of Egypt.
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