(lynn) - ah. cant stand interviews.

thought i should maybe write something even if its crap cuz ive just realised how pathetic i am at this blog business (and that it has 72 views - una was that all you?). well, i hate words. especially counting them incessently to check if ive reached 12,000 yet. blargh. apart from that, im having a ball. felt like part of the community yesterday when we were all sitting round the fire, cooking kangaroo (kangaroo celebrations happen once in a while for no apparent reason, except nowadays its often because travellers/tourists are passing through) when some of the elders started berating me on how awful my bread baking skills were and i had to work on that 'directly' if i ever hoped to get a boyfriend. ah well. the chairperson of the community also said that his grandfather, who was a witch doctor, now has an eagle spirit, and will watch out for me when im at home and check im behaving myself and if not 'well, bad things will happen'. somehow that made me more nervous than comforted.

but eagles, or 'wildus' here are INCREDIBLE. theyre massive and theres so much space and sky (and always good sunsets) that they must just be having the best time of it. i've decided i want to be an eagle. we climbed wayanha/ mt mckinley, the other weekend and the views were the best id ever seen (even though we werent v high, about 1050m), i could see half of australia, and almost to ireland i think. someone had left a notebook and pen in a bottle under a stone so we had fun reading all the messages people had left ... there were only a handful of people who had climbed it recently.

heres a cool photo - its a rock carving - just a circle (which represents a water hole) but it looks like the rock must have split ages ago ... just reminds you how long the aborigines have been living on this land - 40,000 they say. its in a gorge with hundreds of rock carvings made by many tribes walking through, i think its a bit of a cross roads because nearby is a huge ochre pit that the Adnyamathanha use to make paints and dyes.

so leave here on wednesday, then fly to nepal on sunday whoop! any last minute orders from australia? aboriginal paintings? boomerangs? witchety grubs?! i have like minus space in my rucksack though! maybe v v small models of boomerangs...