Boats and Water


Boats and water are a human attraction. Since the dawn of time it has been essential that we use water well. The boat was invented before the wheel. I will just make that point again. The boat was invented before the wheel.

The wheel is a fundamental invention to all that we do in contemporary civilization, and without the invention of the wheel a lot of things would never have happened. Yet despite that, before we invented the wheel we had invented boats. It could be argued that the primary purpose of inventing the wheel was to mimic what we could do in a boat.

So why such an attraction to boats and water. Australia is arguably the 'wide brown land' and yet 98% of us live within 200 km of the coast. The closer to the water a place is, the higher the price. Does this have something to do with the nature of our being, we spend our first 41 weeks immersed in water, and something like 80% of our body weight is water, or are we basically aquatic creatures pretending to be terrestrial?