2010年6月22日火曜日

Lake Hart, South Australia


There are a number of salt lakes in central part of Australia, scattered in this vast dry continent. The red landscape is also surprisingly green contrary to our images of desert land. Many of the salt lakes are below sea level, and this Lake Hart is at 12m below. Lake Hart is a place of spiritual significance for the Australian Aboriginee Kokotha people. Around the lake, we see numerous middens, animals bones, emu footprints…. It felt like a place of life and death – life’s simple yet essential cycle. The salt lies like a thin ice with a pink glow from the red soil underneath. The water is never high, perhaps only a knee high even at the centre. The perfect silence kept the water surface still like a thin glass layer over the pure white salt. The sun started to break, covering the landscape with metallic gold glow. As the lake started to reflect the pale blue sky, I suddenly found myself standing on the edge of the sky.

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