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Adam Smith Fall

This is such a great place to swim! You can feel the fresh and unpolluted water and scene is just awesome!

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The Power From Nature in Australia

Would a nuclear bombardment surpass this? Water hit water and roared like a flight engine before taking off. A cool wind blew toward me and water molecules slapped my face. Tons of water poured down to the surface. Too humongous, too high, and too tremendous, the Moline Rock Hole, as big as Niagara Waterfall, spread… Instantly did I feel all the troubles I'd been going through before arriving here scattered into the fall and instantly I immersed into the nature's power.

I was looking up to find the origin of the water, but only to give up. My neck wasn't strong enough to figure it out. The waterfall was demonstrating its power and dominance over humans, saying that we humans are nothing in front of the nature. It was maybe warning for our humans from approaching it. Then there was a dense thick water fog spreading around. The scene was literally amazing, incredible, and powerful. It seemed to be able to engulf everything in the world. I was in a complete daze for a few minutes. I could neither hear nor see anything

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around me. The sweat that I perspired was magically cooling off by the giant natural air conditioner.

Water drip dropping down toward the surface echoed around the cave. A warning sign in front of the cave surely prevented us from trespassing the cave. My friends’ frowning but pale face told me that they all were scared of the venomous snakes and bats on the warning sign. One of those friends clung to me like a koala and wailed, kept whispering, “Sun Ho, I am scared.” Well, I was afraid too. By the looking of the scars on the cave made by World War II, flooding, earthquake, and tourists, the cave’s darkness, and with the fact that there was less oxygen inside, I stuck to him as well. We were like two Japanese monkeys. Cutta-Cutta cave

was a place that took a lot of guts to explore.

‘All blue and green' is the words I associate Australia with. The whole of Australia represented this. Very natural and very powerful. A tremendous verdant great plain stretched its territory without limit. It was attempting to turn me into green and transformed me to Shreck. Above the color of green, there was always a color of sapphire, the sky. So high was the sky, that I felt like I was in a large dome stadium, bigger than the Bird’s Nest, the one they used for Olympics. Those two colors were always parallel, destined never to meet each other like Romeo and Juliet. There were not many trees on the plain but creatures were, especially wallabies. They scampered around with their tiny bodies as

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though they were welcoming the exotic looking strangers to their land. Their big sparkling eyes, contrasted to their tiny body, were casting the hospitable curiosity, which made them look even cuter. We knew we could be good friends through the whole trip when our eyes met theirs.

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1.Ubir2.Katherine Gorge3.Nourlangie4.Nourlangie5.Katherine Gorge6.Ubir7.Ubir8.Ubir9.Katherine GorgeAll the photos are by SunHo

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