sunday, december 17th
our first destination was the "big brook dam" near pemberton. it’s a local
hang-out with a small swimming beach and a quite nice 3.5km track surrounding the dam. vicky had a swim and we also did the little walk, where (boo!) we saw two snakes crawling out of the bush! scary... Well, actually not really. poor snakes were more afraid of us, hid right away and didn’t even want to have a proper picture! :(
hang-out with a small swimming beach and a quite nice 3.5km track surrounding the dam. vicky had a swim and we also did the little walk, where (boo!) we saw two snakes crawling out of the bush! scary... Well, actually not really. poor snakes were more afraid of us, hid right away and didn’t even want to have a proper picture! :(
after a shocking experience like that it was time to have lunch. went to the lavender & berry farm, had coffee, ice-cream & pancakes and enjoyed our last sunny day. obviously, we didn't know that at that time but enjoyed ourselves anyway :)
the next little stop was somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the way to walpole. i was sleeping the whole time in the car and had no clue where vicky had pulled over. there was a little track so we decided to give it a shot and do some bushwalking (= hiking). couldn’t do all of it though as the path got worse and worse: it was unpaved, couldn’t really see what we were stepping on and were too afraid to meet more of our friends (= snakes). yep, i do have some common sense from time to time and bushwalking in thongs was probably a stupid idea to begin with. walpole, home to the valley of the giants and the tree top walk, was a lot of fun again.
the tree top walk is a 600m long and 40m high steel bridge where you can walk among treetops and have a fun bird-eye view. really cool! pretty amazing to watch birds flying underneath you! nothing for people who are shy of height though 'cause it's very shaky and the whole construction sways with the wind. emi, you’d love it:)
the next little stop was somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the way to walpole. i was sleeping the whole time in the car and had no clue where vicky had pulled over. there was a little track so we decided to give it a shot and do some bushwalking (= hiking). couldn’t do all of it though as the path got worse and worse: it was unpaved, couldn’t really see what we were stepping on and were too afraid to meet more of our friends (= snakes). yep, i do have some common sense from time to time and bushwalking in thongs was probably a stupid idea to begin with. walpole, home to the valley of the giants and the tree top walk, was a lot of fun again.
the tree top walk is a 600m long and 40m high steel bridge where you can walk among treetops and have a fun bird-eye view. really cool! pretty amazing to watch birds flying underneath you! nothing for people who are shy of height though 'cause it's very shaky and the whole construction sways with the wind. emi, you’d love it:)
no clue why, but going by car automatically puts me to sleep. on the way to denmark i couldn’t keep my eyes open again and poor vicky had to entertain herself singing christmas carols.
denmark was awesome! seriously, danish people don’t even know what they're missing out on living in the real thing! :) it is a truly wonderful spot: quiet, cute but still with a lot of stuff to do - the first town i could imagine to live in for a little while. matching the idyllic town, the hostel was fantastic. i didn’t know a backpackers could be that neat & clean. probably cleaner than my own house. hehe. plus, it was the cheapest hostel as well, the owner was the friendliest guy ever, there was free coffee, tea & milo for everybody, ...oh yes, and flint (= the dog)!
denmark was awesome! seriously, danish people don’t even know what they're missing out on living in the real thing! :) it is a truly wonderful spot: quiet, cute but still with a lot of stuff to do - the first town i could imagine to live in for a little while. matching the idyllic town, the hostel was fantastic. i didn’t know a backpackers could be that neat & clean. probably cleaner than my own house. hehe. plus, it was the cheapest hostel as well, the owner was the friendliest guy ever, there was free coffee, tea & milo for everybody, ...oh yes, and flint (= the dog)!
we wished we could have stayed more than one night but that would have messed up all our plans. after we had checked in it turned out that they accidentally double-booked our dorm and so we ended up having a twin room instead. (for no extra charge of course.) cooked a very yummy indian dish and went to see the "elephant rocks" & "green pool" (= rocky beaches nearby). simply fell in love with this place: huge rocks lying on white sand and not a single human being around. lovely! ...i think in some sense even a bit terrifying. can’t describe how much i liked it even though the weather started to get nasty. also saw two stringrays. (and guess what? i decided not to swim:) )
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