I'm finally getting to REALLY experience life overseas! As in not just living in a new country.. but trying out stuff that u'll never get to do back home! yay!
yep well just got back on sunday from a really fun weekend... i went for this intro course held by the mountaineering club.. went to this place called cathedrals national park.. it's like more than 2 hrs drive away from melbourne..
there's this place along the way called black spur.. the road there is really dangerous and winds in and out.. plus by the time we got to that stretch i was getting late.. but the scenery there is fabulous... at one stretch of the road... the trees there are all soooo tall and thin and straight.. it's like a tunnel of trees.... beeeaautiful man... the trees are all the same height too.. cos they are all the same age... wanna know why? well even if u dun i'll tell u anyway...
well it's kind of ironic actually.. that area was previously a logging area... but while the logging was going on there was a fire that wiped out the whole area... so the loggers planted trees so that they could log them next time (tat's y the trees are so straight!)... haha the thing is that b4 they could start the logging.. the place got turn into a national park.. so the loggers essentially created a beauiful national park!
well yeah and my car almost ran over a bunny on the way.. haha it was just sitting on the road and i think it got stunned by the headlights.. but yeah we jam braked and the rabbit just stared at the car.. then it started running.. but forward.. so we honked and finally the silly bunny hopped to the side of the road..luckily we managed to see the bunny cos it was dark by then and there;s no street lights..
yup got to see lot's of wildlife too.. REAL wildlife.. haha i mean i've seen kangaroos b4 but WILD kangaroos a couple of metres away from u? that's cool i tell u.. plus there were joeys too! yeah and there was this sick wombat that kept on coming to the campsite for 2 nights straight.. it had mange and the wildlife rescuers were trying to catch it to treat it... oh yeah saw a wild koala to! now that's hard to find... haha lots of kookaburas around.. they really do sound like they're laughing when they cry out.. plus there's these flock of birds i call the bird mob.. really funny birds that swoop down tgt and walk on the GROUND like a mob...
well anyway what's more exciting is what activities there were... i did rock climbing first.. and i can tell u it's a zillion times more fun to do it on a real rock than the indoor stuff... there's different grades for the rock walls ... the first one i did was the hardest out of the bunch that they let us do.. but it was still relatively easy.. a grade 10 or sumthing.. but the wall was quite smooth though.. haveta really find good footholds and stuff.. then later they let those who wanted to try more challanging stuff to try another wall... i tell u that was HARD man... plus i had no idea i was trying the grade 18 one.. haha i got to the top though i CHEATED.. i took a detour and went by the route beside me(i tink it was the grade 14/16 route)... lol but good fun though...
yep and after lunch was kayaking! River kayaking that is.. i tell u the river is freezinf man.. icy cold... they made pple learn wet exits right at the start and when it was my turn.. i got a shock when i hit the water.. it was sooooo damn bloody cold lor.. yeah and my spray skirt (they gave everyone the wetsuit material type) was soo damn tight it took 2 other pple excluding me to get it on.. so it was so damn hard to get it off when i capsize... plus my fingers were all numb.. oh yeah they made everyone wear thermals for the kayaking.. good thing .. cos they really keep u warm even if they're wet.. yeah so the fun parts were going down the rapids.. they taught us how to get into the rapids from the eddy and how to enter the eddy from the rapids.. the rapids were really cool.. but too bad there was so little of that on this trip.. but yeah it was fun going up and down.. haha right at the very end.. i capsized when i was trying to exit the last and strongest rapid... yeah that was the ok part.. the part i din like was the one when they threw me a rope to pull me in... cos they were pulling me against the current and the water was going over my head ... and i could barely hold on cos my fingers were so cold.. when i finally got on land.. i could hardly feel my fingers.. seriously.. they were totally numb... haha but well it was a great experience though...
lastly.. bushwalking.. they split us up into diff groups.. the real garang ones went to jawbone mountain.. they really had to do bush slashing man.. tough...plus they climbed to the peak too... another grp did "real" bush walking.. they walked for like 3/4 hrs straight.. hhaha.. my grp was the shortest trip.. but i tink they shouldnt call it bushwalking.. more like ROCK SCRAMBLING... yeah basically we were scrambling up and down rocks.. climbing up the cliffs... kinda like rock climbing without the ropes... we had to go thru this cave at one pt... that was damn cool man.. literally... the cave was soooo cooling.. we were like all hugging the rock... so cold and nice..but it was really narrow... we had to take off our backpacks and throw it in front of us at every step if not we'll get stuck.. yeah and we had to climb up sideways cos some pts were really narrow.. but it was real fun.. when we reached the top( my mountain was call sugarloaf mountain btw.. cute name for a mountain eh?) we had lunch there.. saw this huge lizard.. and our guide fed the lizard tuna and it LOVED it.. haha.. oh and the only place in the park with hand phone reception is at the top of the mountain...
well the only thing i HATED abt the trip was the bloody freakin flies.. there were soooo many of them and they kept swarming ard everyone.. cant eat in peace.. cant even SIT in peace...
ok i realised i've talked ALOT already.. will post photos up when i get them from my frens...
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