Bush walking Adventure!

Hi!!
So yesterday, I went on a bush walking experience! We went with a group of international students! Our means of transportation was nothing but entertaining since we rode on a bendy bus to the location...I nicknamed him Bendy!

The adventure was led by 2 Aboriginal people (for those of you know don't know what an Aboriginal is...a native person of Australia). They were very nice and were full of interesting information about the land of Australia and the bush. I heard tons of different types of birds, saw tons of different types of plants and trees (even some poisonous ones..ahh!), but sadly we didn't get to see any wild life on the walk. The tour guides informed us of different trees and plants that can be cut open and have the water sucked out of them in case we ever got lost in the bush! They also pointed out the ones not to eat and the ones to eat! There were trees with leaves that felt like sand paper that helped with skin disease and other illnesses. They told us that there is a plant to cure just about everything even cancer! They have trees that will give you rashes, trees that will make you pregnant(Kim and I stayed away from those ones!!), fresh water creeks, and at the end of the trip we found birds that will swoop and poke you with its pointy/sharp wings if you get too close to their eggs! But the sad part was someone had moved their eggs therefore, making them abandon them since someone had touched them.

The trail we were on led us all the way down to the beach! This was one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen! I felt like I was in paradise! The water was so blue and the sand was so soft! The tour guide said that this beach wasn't patrolled so the currents were really strong and the rip curls were really bad! There were only a few surfers. We walked along the beach for a while until we hit Bar Beach which is one of Newcastle popular beaches. On the way, some of us girls decided to make a Chariots of Fire video! We were filmed running slowly on the beach and my good friend Amy from London edited it and added music! It turned out really funny and can be found on my Facebook page! I will try to upload it to the blog later. I met a new friend Michael and we took a picture on some rocks and had a huge wave crash up on the rocks behind us, giving us an epic photo. One of my friends from Canada has it though and sadly hasn't posted it yet...another photo soon to come!



Cut Vine, Suck and enjoy some H2O

On the trail, the guide warned us that there was a whale close to the beach we were walking to, and were almost not able to go since they thought the whale was sick. Turns out the whale had just gave birth to a calf and was just resting. So we hurried down to the beach, but sadly, she had already left back into the ocean. She was supposed to be close to the Newcastle though so we kept our eyes peeled for a whale in the distance, but didn't get to see her! :( Going to an aquarium while I'm here is definitely on my to do list!! But that was pretty much the end of the adventure! We walked through the bush and rain forest and on an absolutely beautiful beach! It was a day for the books!


Poisonous Plant

Water Fall

Ocean!

Michael and I!

Hollow tree!