Naracoorte

the third of the fifth
I stayed at the B&B in the morning to finish some lovely school paper and in the afternoon we had an adventure tour planned. Also I was waiting for our luggage, which was stuck at Melbourne airport and being delivered to us by a bus.
The adventure tour in the afternoon was a bit different to the one at Jenolan. It was only three of us and a guide and it was a lot more technical. We got knee pads and everything, even though it didn't prevent my knees from being red for another 3 days.
Tha last few metres of the tour we've done in complete darkness. Turned off the lights and just crawled, smashed our heads and there was also some bleeding involved. Tough!

Oh yeah!

Just for the record, it was extra hard to remove that mud from our shoes.

Canberrrrra

the first of the fifth

A trip to Canberra. On Sunday. Never Again!
Although Canberra is the nation's capital, with population over 350,000 people, it is a dead city. There was literally no one in there. No one on the streets, in the shopping centres (mainly because they were closed...). In the morning we went to the botanical gardens of Canberra, pretty but nothing like Sydney.
Then had a look from the Telstra viewing tower.
Then we found out that we missed a ton of interesting sunday markets and a flea market. Gutted.

Hi kangaroo

This below is an emblem of Australia (they have it on their passports). There are questions about the choice of animals, why a kangaroo and an emu. The answer is that these are the only two animals that can't go backwards.

But that's a lie.

golem

I can totally pull this off.

Monday breakfast at the botanic gardens, yum.

No zoom was used to make this picture

Wee Jasper, a lot of nice photos and my first bush dance!

The last day of April

On the 30th of April we moved on to another location; Wee Jasper. It is a beautiful place in the middle of nowhere. It takes a little over 30 minutes of windy sandy bushy roads to get there but it definitely is worth it. The "cottage" we've stayed in was in the middle of sheep farms, there were sheep (obviously), kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, parrots and a lake. Everything you could wish for.

First stop: a cave. A different one. This small cave only has one guide and that is Geoff. He is different and that is meant in a positive way. He makes the tour interesting.  For him it's not just a cave, it is a stage, a concert hall, an education centre, a fun place.

Firstly, he had us sit down and said this: When people explored caves hundreds of years ago, they only had candles, can you really appreciate the cave when you can't see it?

A candle

No, not really.

How about when you light some more candles? Can you see better?

The man with the candles. Geoff.

Yes, we can.  And its beautiful.

This is Andy. He's been a good host and a great friend.

This is Brett. He is a wonderful cook! And by wonderful, I do not mean that he can make beef stew.

The pictures below are just photos of the country and the enviroments.

Parrots

Parrots flying

Who can spot a kangaroo

Sheep

Some more a bit unsharp parrots 

The lake (a lot of fossils there)

And finally, this is the place where we stayed. It was spectacular. Couple of pictures of how my livingroom is going to look like. Some day.

There we go now, dance on! Traditional bush dance. It was quite good fun. Just missed a partner I could dance with (although Geoff made sure I got plenty of men asking me to dance :D )

Bush dance, not a very good picture, in fact the only one I have taken as I was too busy dancing.

Pretty picture of me and a baby wombat I got to see and hold after the dance. Can't get rid of the blur unfortunately.

Stupid face picture

Wombeyan (caves)

29th of the 4th

This is quite boring guys, we didn't do much on this day, just had a look around some caves (surprisingly) So I'm just attaching couple of photos:

Pretty

Giant fossil on the right side of a giant turtle or something

Oh yes and we did stop by a big sheep store - where they sell merino wool,  mostly just merino wool products. You could actually go inside the sheep, walk a few steps and look out through its eyes.

Giant sheep