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In the midst of red, rocky desert …
July 3, 2008Imagine that you’ve been transported a century or more back in time and that you are riding a horse or walking or you’re leading a camel across rocky and arid plains in the Australian outback.
Summer or winter, you’d probably be thirsty or at least worried about how to replenish your water supplies in time to save your own life and that of your horse or camel.
Now imagine that you peer over the edge of a wide crack in the red ground and look down onto the tops of healthy trees growing alongside a small stream that ends in a pool of clear fresh water.
As you celebrated, you might well think you’d stumbled upon a Garden of Eden, and that is the name modern-day folks have given to a small, lush canyon which is part of the Watarrka National Park or Kings Canyon between Uluru and Alice Springs in the Northern Territories.
Even for day hikers like me and Kristi, with plenty of water and a Toyota waiting for us in the car park, the Garden of Eden was Read the rest of this entry »