just arrived in adelaide.
and last night in perth was great. the belvoir amphitheater is a pretty remarkable place. a big outdoor natural amphitheater where the tiers are all grass. what a wonderful venue.
a warm night. the moon rising over the natural grass amphitheater.
lovely people. nice.
and flying from perth to adelaide you get a miniscule sense of just how empty most of australia is.
i would be interested to know what percentage of australia’s population live in the big coastal cities. i’m guessing that it’s somewhere around 75%. which leaves the rest of the country almost uninhabited. which is remarkable (especially seeing as i grew up in bos-wash, the megalopolis from boston to washington including new york and philadelphia and baltimore and stamford and etc, that it comprised of roughly 40 million people).
and australia is the size of western europe and it’s population is 18 million people…
is it? 20 milion? suffice it to say that there’s a lot of space in australia.
flying over mile after mile of empty coastland.
now i’m being a hotel hippie and cooking brown rice and tempeh (many hotels in australia and new zealand have kitchens and clothes washers. it’s very civilized, and other hotels in the rest of the world would do well to follow the antipodean example. right.).
ok, time to go be a hippie.
moby