This past weekend, Les' family and I went camping down at Wilson's Prom! Some friends of their friends came as well so there was 9 of us all together. I took tons of photos of all the natural beauty which will now be posted.
Here is me, Mel, and Mandy in the back seat waiting to head off the 4 hour trek to the Prom! We made one bathroom break and stopped at Fish[y] Creek for lunch. We ate at
and everything inside was cows, and flying ones at that! I felt like I was at Megan's house again. The food was great and half way through our meal, a goat tried joining us! Rob told the workers that a goat was trying to come in and they said it happens all the time and returned the goat to his owner.
We finally arrived and the weather was a bit overcast but still a comfortable temperature.
We decided to go down to Tidal River which goes right into the ocean. All of the water that the camp uses comes from this river, so we had to use it sparingly!
We were surrounded by jellyfish!They didn't mind chilling on the shore waiting for high tide. Luckily you could still walk barefoot and not get stung!
That is one of my favorite pictures. Miranda begging Melody for the binocs. Pretty much defines their relationship.
Miranda wrote my name in the sand and then that became the trend. We eventually made a crossword of all of our names together. I would have needed an aeroplane to take a picture of the whole thing!
That night we went on a little nighttime walk around. And we came across lots of Australian wildlife! We saw 3 or 4 wombats and I even almost tripped over one! I was so scared, even though they look very harmless!!! We also saw a possum (which also scared me half to death- they're creepy in the dark!)
That night after we had gone to bed, I was suddenly woken up by 2 big THUDS. It was poor Melody falling off the top bunk! She didn't hurt anything luckily but it was really scary!
The next day we went on a little bush walk called Lilly Pilly Gully. It was one big loop with a boardwalk towards the end.
Tree Brush!
That's Luca. He is HILARIOUS. And also BRILLIANT. He wanted me to take a picture of the hole but then got distracted while I took the picture.
Luca took this picture. I unfortunately forget the real name, but the girls used them in their hair as brushes and curlers. At one point it even became a bum curler. I don't really know how that happened..
Here is a huge tree that has fallen down and we are standing on the roots! How cool!
This is a big tree hollowed out. And now here comes the highlight of Lilly Pilly Gully!
Here's the boardwalk that we walked around. A s we began walking on this, some people who had just finished the loop told us to look up when we got to the middle, we kept our eyes pealed only to find...
A real live koala in the wild!!!! Unfortunately it was very shy and hurriedly scooted backwards to get into a part of the tree where we couldn't bother him. But for those brief moments, we saw something that you really don't see everyday!
We then drove about half way up Mt Oberon and even from there it was a beautiful view of Wilson's Prom.
This day's scare was Miranda getting lost. None of us knew she was lost until she came crying back to the hut. There was a misunderstanding about where she was supposed to go so she started walking around by herself and finally found her way back.
The next day me, Mel, Les, and Rob took a little hike to Squeaky Beach! Before that, we went to Tidal River again and having a good time. Luca was crossing in a little bit of water and we look away for one second and then we look back and he's up to his knees! Oh wait! His waist! Oh no! His chest!! Leslea jumped in and saved him at that point. It was happening so fast we didn't really know what to do! He was fine, just a little frightened. On our hike to Squeaky Beach, we saw lots of birds including kookaburras.
Here it is! Squeaky Beach is not named that for no reason. It actually squeeks! It sounds like sneakers on a basketball court. Very strange. And the reason is because all of the sand is the same size and shape so when they rub together it's like marbles rubbing together. COOL!
Our last day started with crimson rosellas on our porch! I should mention that the night before we had a possum on our porch too!
Mel had some fish but he was only interested in human food!
While we were eating lunch outside, birds were SWARMING all over us! We were wacking them left and right to protect our delicious potato cakes and chips. A few birds made it to the table but the best part was when on landed on Les' head and she was screaming "get it off get it off get it off!" and we just watched and laughed.
We tried leaving, but this darn bird was not having any of that. He was not going to move from that mirror.
We even reversed out of the parking lot and he stayed on! Finally he flew away. It was one of the funniest things all weekend. (Sorry the video is sideways!)
We had her run to the camera to get the full shot. So she's not really crying.
And because LaLa loves me so much, she thought she would be Asian too :]]
We got my birth certificate (boring...but didn't take too long). We then walked around a few blocks and they took me to their favourite alley way (a lot of alley ways in Melbourne have cute little clothing stores and cafes) so here I am there:
We THEN went over to the Art Museum right next to the Yarra River and saw an exhibition of Sidney Nolan. He is from St Kilda and is most famous for his "Kelly" paintings. Very Picassoish but his later stuff is beeeutiful in a very different way. Simply amazing! We also went into the Top Arts exhibition. This is grade 12 students' artwork. Ohmygoodness. It is unbelievable. It's so not my medium so I think that just adds to the amazingness. But my favorite was Leo Bagus Purnomo's, who made a human out of bark with way deep meaning. Just fan.tastic. All of were kind of pooped after that so Les and I headed back and made some more food for the trip. A wonderful little day trip into the city which will be repeated when I go back!
and everything inside was cows, and flying ones at that! I felt like I was at Megan's house again. The food was great and half way through our meal, a goat tried joining us! Rob told the workers that a goat was trying to come in and they said it happens all the time and returned the goat to his owner.
We were surrounded by jellyfish!They didn't mind chilling on the shore waiting for high tide. Luckily you could still walk barefoot and not get stung!
That's Luca. He is HILARIOUS. And also BRILLIANT. He wanted me to take a picture of the hole but then got distracted while I took the picture.
Luca took this picture. I unfortunately forget the real name, but the girls used them in their hair as brushes and curlers. At one point it even became a bum curler. I don't really know how that happened..
Here is a huge tree that has fallen down and we are standing on the roots! How cool!
This is a big tree hollowed out. And now here comes the highlight of Lilly Pilly Gully!
A real live koala in the wild!!!! Unfortunately it was very shy and hurriedly scooted backwards to get into a part of the tree where we couldn't bother him. But for those brief moments, we saw something that you really don't see everyday!
We then drove about half way up Mt Oberon and even from there it was a beautiful view of Wilson's Prom.
Here it is! Squeaky Beach is not named that for no reason. It actually squeeks! It sounds like sneakers on a basketball court. Very strange. And the reason is because all of the sand is the same size and shape so when they rub together it's like marbles rubbing together. COOL!
Our last day started with crimson rosellas on our porch! I should mention that the night before we had a possum on our porch too!
Mel had some fish but he was only interested in human food!
We tried leaving, but this darn bird was not having any of that. He was not going to move from that mirror.