Anyways today we woke up at 5:00. 5:00!!! Seriously, who does that? (aside from kickass nurses) Although it is way easier waking up that early when you're going to see dolphins than it is to go in for a shift at work so I guess I can't complain. Breakfast today: you guessed it. Toast with spreads and cornflakes. Our guide informed us that he made himself bacon and eggs for breakfast...what the heck!! Except Australian bacon is definitely subpar to American bacon. Not as greasy and fat :)
We went to this resort called Monkey Mia (no monkeys unfortunately) and got to watch a bottlenose dolphin feeding! The dolphins swim in every morning around 8am to get fed and put on a show. They swam right up to our feet! Some lucky folks from the audience got to feed fish to the dolphins but we were not so lucky. There were five dolphins present for breakfast today, it was great!
Side note about karinas thoughts on Americans being uptight...I know it's for safety reasons but the hiking cliffs and trails we were on yesterday had no barriers or chains keeping people back from the edge! Just signs saying it was dangerous and you hike at your own risk. Not like back home!! And parking is free at beaches! Not $25 like in Gloucester. Nonsense!
Anyways. After the dolphins we went to these cliffs called Eagle Bluff and saw sharks swimming below us!! There were hundreds of them. I think they were tiger sharks...they were small though, only 1.5 meters long. No great whites! They were just hanging out with their turtle and sting ray friends. No biting humans here!
David this is for you...we went to see the Hamelin Stromatolites conservation!! So, I kind of slept through the bus driver's explanation of stromatolites (me?? Sleeping through something?!? Shocking!!) but from what I gathered, they're these 3.5 billion year old bacteria that have clumped together over the years and they were the first living things on earth. I think they made the air into air we can breathe by releasing oxygen! But don't hold me to this! Anyways basically they're really important and according to David we wouldn't be here without them! So thank you stromatolites!!!!
Driving down the road we saw a family of emu hanging out in town and then we saw another family of emu running alongside the road in the outback with us! And lots of kangaroo hanging out under the trees! No koalas up here though. Too hot for eucalyptus trees.
We didn't do much today because we had to drive 800km, which i think is like 500miles? So we did a lot of sitting on the bus. Apparently I punched Karina in the face at one point...i said i must've been sleeping and she says i was definitely awake...clearly she was not too happy with me!
We stayed at an outback sheep station in "Big Sky Country" at a "million star resort" and people slept under the stars!! Get it? Million star resort?!? I i was gonna stay outside but I was afraid of crickets and snakes crawling into my bed :-( karina couldn't be bothered and slept inside.
We fiiinally got to watch an awesome sunset on the beach by the sheep station. The sheep people own 57,000 acres of land and 14 beaches or something like that. Crazy!! They also had two baby goats that they brought with us to the beach (obviously?) that we swam and played with. So cute! There was a horse there but one of the German guys hit it in the face with a ball when playing cricket so the horse had to go home.
After swimming and eating a delicious meal of chicken and veggies (and the special mushrooms Darren made for Karina that she made me eat), we had a bonfire and showed all the Europeans how to roast marshmallows. Apparently they don't roast marshmallows anywhere else in the world! They also dont make smores which is just tragic and we had to keep explaining what a smore was! When it came our turn to roast, everyone chanted USA! USA! But I guess they didn't like our way of catching them on fire and eating them burnt...oh well, more for us!
Karina here- so despite everything I said about goon yesterday I actually enjoyed it tonight sans water! Guess it just took a day to grow on me? Anyway that's good news since we have about 3 liters left of it!
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