One the first day, we went to Wilsons Promontory National Park and saw some wild animals – wombats, emus, and wallabies, which are just like kangaroos. We also did a hike and visited Squeaky Beach. The sand was unbelievably white and the sky amazingly blue. We got to our hostel at Lake Entrance at night, did some shopping for lunch for the next day, and watched a movie with the guys I was sharing a room with.
We went up close to the highest point in Australia on the second day and saw some snow, which was interesting. Apparently the snowboarding season starts in two weeks so unfortunately we will be missing that. The hike was a little disappointing as it was 3 miles of the same view of mountain ridges covered by snow.
On our third and last day of the trip, we went up to Canberra, Australia’s Washington DC. Most of us went to see the parliament, which was very interesting architecturally. However, we sat through an hour-long education from this boring old guy on Australia’s lack of history and had little time to do anything else The French dude and some others went to see the War Museum and from the pictures he took, it seemed like they had a much more exciting trip. They got to see aircrafts and weapons the Australians used in the First and Second World War.
In the evening of the third day we arrived in Sydney. I went to grab some Italian food with Adrian or the French dude. The French surely knows about food and wine. We had a nice dinner with a great view of Darling Harbor at night. The view was so good that I went back for some pictures the second day.
Pictures
1) Wonbtas, or whatever they are called, but they look like teddy bears to me.
2) Wallabies and they look like kangaroos to me
3, 4) Top of the hike, the beach is Squeaky Beach
5) Squeaky Beach
6) Sand that was supposed to squeak
7) I got a picture of the two older women on the tour. What a fantastic way to retire!
8, 9) More from Squeaky Beach
10) Me
11, 12) Emus, which kind of look like ostriches.
13) Oldest school in Australia
14) Amazing view near the highest point in Australia
15) Snow
16) Me at the top
17, 18) Native art in the Parliament in Canberra
19) Great Hall, the tapestry is a forest, which closely resembles the landscape I saw later in Blue Mountains in Sydney
20) Painting for the tapestry
21) Where the Senate meets and where our boring lecture took place, looks like the one in Hong Kong, because of the British influence I guess.
22) View from the Parliament
23) We did not have time to take a picture of the Parliament itself. This is the ornament at the top
24) Our bus and our group
