This photophobia reached its peak this week at Ularu (no pun intended). I had travelled for days to the centre of the Australian continent to see the worlds largest rock. And so had hundreds of other people. Hundreds of people from hundreds of countries are bussed in each day to photograph sunset, to photograph sunrise, to photograph the worlds most photographed rock.
I found this faintly embarrassing and fully annoying. The rock is beautiful & all that, but its beauty felt sullied by the hoards of people who would only look at it through a view finder. It felt as though each tourist, each camera stole a little bit of beauty from the rock. I began to resent the rock in the way I resent new years eve - the syndrome of being forced to do something (have fun / see beauty) at a certain time just because everyone else around you does.
So I've seen Ularu & I have that picture in my memory, but I don't have pictures of it to show you, instead here are pics of some other beautiful places I've visited that you wont find on an Athena poster or on the front cover of the Lonely Planet.
Mudsely beach, UK
Angel Island, Indonesia
Farmhouse, Madagascar
Mount Connor, Australia (about 60km from Ularu)
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Thanks for thinking of us as living in a beautiful place, perhaps at the moment with all the rain it is a little 'Mudsely' but for all of you out there trying to find this wonderful haven it is MUNDESLEY on the North Norfolk coast!
Perhaps I should have kept that to myself as we don't want to be invaded, but please feel free to visit just for a short while.
http://mundesleypc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/
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