AUSTRALIA –  Showcase of Natural Beauty (I)
By Lere Shakunle

In Australia, Nature showcases the beauty of the blossom of her bounty. It matters not only that which is given but matters too how the given is transformed with tenderness as it is the case with the Natural Parks of Australia. The soothing glow of the sun as it resigns unwillingly to its bed here to say good morning elsewhere, the lavender of the earth as she breathes health and care out that is easily picked by the children and those who could sally out of the arrest of shopping and liberate themselves from the clutch of what to buy and buy again to go back to the bosom of Mother Nature in the park or the forest or the sea around in this land, are contained in the invitation to the basket of natural beauty of a land in grandmother’s loving arms of the sea. Australia.

All over the world, there is natural beauty to be found if not in the rolling waves of a joyous flow as it is in Australia but as sudden surprises around the corner, in the straight, on the hills and lowlands as punctuation that constitutes the place of resort for the human soul in need of home of rest and peace, here and now. The difference that is Australia is this devotion to the environment, this commitment to Nature’s health that is repaid, as to be expected with Nature’s beauty in the flowers, in the trees, in the air, right from the bowels of the earth and the reach of the heaven, yes, everywhere to the extent that ecology is not just an academic exercise nor the practice of armchair philosophers who preach rapport and shut themselves away from the world, preach love and resign behind the closet nor that of well, everybody is talking global warming and all that, let’s talk same too and don the base cap of ecolovers, well, isn’t that beautiful, such things, but a way of life to pass on to the children and from them to posterity.

With this, it’s welcome to our first place of visit among the famous national parks of Australia – Kakadu National Park.