Death Wish

3/25/2012

Woke up very early on Sunday with my feet rather damp in the bottom of my sleeping bag. It had rained the night before and all along the edges of the tent were wet.  Elise and I decided, since we were up, to go watch the sunrise on the beach.

 On the walk down it was pitch black. So black, that I ran, chest first, into spider web. This was no ordinary spider web. This was the stickiest spider web I have ever encountered. And I was convinced that there was a giant spider on me. Elise assured me that there wasn’t. But it took a bit before a believed her. She  was a champ and helped me brush off the remaining web parts, even though it was so sticky I don’t think we got it all.

Even though it was raining and we couldn’t see anything, it was still pretty. We got to see dolphins taking a leisurely morning swim. No one was on the beach yet, it was so beautiful and peaceful. We walked over to another little cove, (walked into another spider web, much less sticky than the first. I clearly have a death wish. I let Elise lead from then on.)

 We spent a good hour down on the beach. Didn’t really talk, just took I the scenery:

Then we went back up, had breakfast. Tore down camp. Had a little debrief over what we had seen yesterday. While we were talking a Wallaby came into our site. It was the first Australian animal I’ve seen! It was so cute. It looked like a baby kangaroo.

When we were all done and packed up, we got on bus, and I sat by Tam. Went to another part of the area and walked down to another super pretty beach. Here Joe and Paul met us and we heard some last words from them. We had to leave really quickly because our bus driver had places to be. So we hoped on the bus and drove. Tam and I chatted all aobut our future lives and ideal occupations. We stopped at drivers house to drop of gear we had borrowed. He lives in country and we saw pack of wild Kangaroo in his yard. First kangaroo I’ve seen ever!!! They were pretty big too:

 Then we went father and stopped at Kiama for lunch (Subway platter = best thing ever).  Took more pictures.

Back on the road, I played a game with Tam, Ty, Michelle and Jennifer. First, we went through the alphabet and had to take turns naming a different country starting with that letter. That was an interesting game. That evolved into another game where someone would start with the name of a country, and the next person had to say a country that started with the last letter of the previous country. We quickly realized that a lot of places end in ‘a’. From there we decided to do states (from any country) as well as countries. Then that got too hard, so we added capitol cities to the list. That was an interesting game. I thought that I knew some stuff about geography, but not after playing with those people. Ty kept naming countries that I’ve never even heard of before. It was crazy. We did this for like, 2 hours. No exaggeration.

Finally got back to school. Unloaded everything, then had to take the city bus back. There was about 20 of us who had to take the same bus. Us and all of our gear, climbing onto a city bus. It was a sight. Everyone hated us. But we made it home and I got to shower!