Wednesday 25 June 2014

Top 15 Expereinces Around Australia- Part 2

So here comes part 2 of 3. I hoped you all liked my first 5.

The clearness of the water will astound you. (This is Oyster
Stacks)
6. Caving at Naracoorte- For a unique experience, we went caving at Naracoorte. It was a fun experience, with all the squeezing through tight spaces making sure we all kept nice and thin!. Some of the challenges were quite a tight squeeze. It was definitely a good novelty. As we were about to start the car to drive away from the caves, the car broke down. 

7. Snorkelling at Ningaloo- Now the Great Barrier Reef is pretty well known, but what about Ningaloo. For a fraction of the cost (literally $26/n to camp there and visit the snorkeling sites), the 
snorkeling there is the best we have seen. The variety of fish is great. Turquoise bay was a great snorkelling site, with the ability to just float there as the current takes you along ( A post in more detail here).

Perth High Ropes
8. High ropes at Perth- Now this was an adrenaline rush! Walking 10m above the ground on a tightrope, climbing, and jumping around up there is definitely fun! We got to go on twice, and the second time with more confidence under our belt we almost raced across it. The tightrope was definitely the most fun, as you slowly and carefully put one foot in front of the other. Jumping off into empty space was probably the hardest challenge, as you took the flying fox down. It's completely different from stepping out on anything (Post here in more detail)!

9. Kayaking up Katherine Gorge- Katherine Gorge was sort of the must-see things that we did. We only had to hire one kayak luckily, as we already had two. While kayaking up there Joel managed to catch a monster catfish, which pulled him up and down the gorge. We only kayaked for a short while, but the gorge walls awed us into silence.

Heading up Katherine Gorge

10. Seeing the 12 apostles/ Great ocean Road- We had seen the twelve apostles before this trip, in 2008, but we decided to go again and view the twelve apostles. It was just on sunset, apparently the best time to view them, and when we hopped out of the car we joined the stream of tourists down to the 12 apostles. There was definetly plenty of foreign tourists. As a different idea, we busked on the way to the 12 apostles, figuring that with all the people it might be a good idea. It wasn't too good, but when we finished we moved up to the viewing platform and nearly got blown away! The wind was howling like anything!! We snapped a few photos and then went on, glad to see the 12 apostles (actually only 8 now) ticked off our list of 'must see popular tourist destinations'.


The twelve apostles at sunset

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