Australia I

What can I say, traveling is the most you can experience in this planet, especially when you go to places that are very far away and you have never seen before. Yes you have seen documentaries, films, read books. But nothing can beat the sensation when you arrive there. The first difference is the space. The contrast is huge. In the Netherlands everything is very crowded. In South Western Australia you go miles and miles and you only see enormous trees, lunar landscapes and some emus and kangaroos jumping of running around.

It is really impressive how people living there have managed to beat those huge distances and isolation by creating a well developed road and transport infrastructure. Most of the time I could find more products on a local supermarket than the most sorted supermarket in the center of Amsterdam.

The relationship with the aboriginals is a very itchy thing. Some people are just in a kind denial of everything that has happened. Others are so touched by it that they feel really unhappy. Others try to go on and from now on make the most of it. What impressed me is to see that many of them that are now in between the ages of 40 and 50 years old are lost. Too much has happened to them. The new generations some of them got quite handy and they move pretty well in the regular world. Others are marginalized but contrary to the numbness of their elders they have become aggressive.