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We arrived at the rock pools and it was really cool. It looked a lot like Oregon actually, just little springs with water running over the rocks. I only saw 2 spiders as well!! Although they were massive, and apparently one I was told could mess you up pretty bad if bit. Ick. The water was a bit cold, but still was awesome.
Once we decided to get out of the water we were walking back up to the car, when some aboriginals were having a bbq and asked us if we would like to join. It was a group of older men who said that they get together every fortnight (every 2 weeks) and just have a bbq and hang out. The cool thing about Australia is that there are free public gas bbq's all over the place. It's something that I really like. Anyways we sat down with them and had sausages and steak with apples and juice. It was really good and everyone was very nice which is strange because aboriginals are known for not being friendly. We also had a random chicken stop by and see if it could gather any food from us. Very funny.
We then proceeded up the road and came upon a national park. At the end of the road there was an area where you can pull off and go 'hiking'. Just like with scenic areas back in Oregon there is a concrete path with various viewpoints of tons more rock pools. So we got out and went along the path and found this GORGEOUS waterfall that came into a little pool, which then formed another waterfall into a larger pool. All the signs we saw said 'no jumping or diving' 'water is more shallow than it looks' and things like that, but nothing said no swimming. We hopped the fence to go check out the pools. We got in the water and it was freezing. Way colder than the other pools, but it was so pretty we couldn't help it. Liam and Marty went all the way in, but I just stuck my feet in. Liam then decided to slide down the waterfall into the smaller pool. It was like a natural waterslide. Very dangerous, but fun. I got a video of it that I will try to post as well.
The aboriginals told us to take a different way home that was much more pretty so we decided to do that even though it was completely out of the way. It's not like we didn't have time. It was unreal. We actually ended up in New South Wales which we weren't expecting, but we were going up through the rain forest and it was just a straight cliff on one side, but the view was incredible. We weren't able to stop and get pictures at all the spots we wanted, because the road was so narrow, but it reminded me of movies like Tarzan and King Kong and stuff. I know that sounds really dumb, but it's true. You could see so far out and it was just hilly and full of trees and some really really cool cliffs and stuff. We stopped at one point in New South Wales at a spot that overlooked a valley and you could see the ocean in the background. It was gorgeous.
It was an amazing day with beautiful views and good people. It was amazing to me that you can just go like an hour outside the city and you can be somewhere so beautiful. It's difficult not having a car because I'm not able to go places like this all the time or on my days off. It made me really realize that I can seriously consider myself living it. It's beautiful and the weather is nice (when it doesn't rain). It's absolutely a place I want to go back to and it also makes me realize that I don't know if I want to just stay in Surfers. I want to get outside the city and see other things! The guys were telling us about a city about 2 hours away that is completely underground!! I want to see it so bad. That would be really cool!
Missing you all very much.
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