What is land snorkelling? New outdoor wellness trend connects you ‘deeper' with nature
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Land snorkelling, according to its ethos, could be watching an army of ants re-engineer a driveway crack; noticing the perfect spheres of dew clinging to field grass; or studying the shape of water dancing over a river rock.
It is studying your surroundings on land with a narrowed perspective, the way you would if you were on a snorkelling expedition.
Artists Clyde Aspevig and Carol Guzman, from the US state of Montana, coined the term in the early 1990s after hiking outside the desert town of Sedona in the US state of Arizona. The two were struck by how the colours of the red sands complemented the greens of the succulents.
That is when Guzman's diving background bubbled up.
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'We're land snorkelling,' she recalls blurting out.
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