Today was awesome. We started the day out an hour early because we thought we had to be down town at 8 instead of 9, I guess it’s better than making the reverse mistake… Oh well. We did a morning lap around Rusty’s market and Chue made a few more friends to get us cheap fruits and veggies. We then drove an hour in a van to Lake Eacham National Park where we saw a few “bottom breathing” turtles, they are referred to bottom breathers because they breath our of…well, you get the picture. Then we lay around the volcanic crater lake and ate fresh cut watermelon and pineapple. Then it was back in the car to drive to the famous Curtain Fig tree. The tree was giant! It originally grew around one tree and practically cut it off from al light, after that tree dies it fell onto another neighboring tree and continued cutting of that new tree. We heard it was both 200 years old and 400 to 500 years old, so who really knows, but I don’t really care, it was so cool. Then we drove to a small old town to have lunch at the Malanda Hotel, which seemed to have been founded in 1911. We had a ‘beef burger’; don’t ask for a hamburger because you will end up with a burger made of ham. They put lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and pickled beet (called beetroot) on the burger and gave us heaping portions of ‘chips’. After feeling full to bursting we took a trip to the Milla Milla Waterfalls. It was absolutely beautiful, and kind of reminded us of the scene in “Perfect Getaway”. I am proud to say that Jen and I were the first two in the rather chilly water and both of us made it out to the waterfall before anyone joined us. We climbed up behind the waterfall on the rocks to get a pretty incredible view. It was so wonderful, we were reluctant to leave but eventually we swam back across the water and got changed to go on to our next adventure: Johnstone River Crocodile & Native Wildlife Farm.
I have officially touched/ held: a saltwater crocodile, a black cockatoo, a carpet python, a grey kangaroo, several species of wallaby, a dingo, and a bearded lizard named “Crystal”. We saw cassowaries and emus, and enough ‘salties’ (saltwater crocodiles) to make me never want to swim near estuaries. After getting to take pictures with all of the animals and deciding that if I ever get a dog it must be part dingo we headed home.
We took a quick trip through the night markets downtown to get me a cheap Aussi hat and then picked up pieces of Sunday dinner in Woolworths. We came home and fixed up rice, a salad, baked rolls, and a pre-cooked chicken. Although we were absolutely stuffed Jennifer made us crepes for dessert, which we covered in nutella, fruit and ice cream. Now all we have to do is look back on our wonderful pictures of the day, digest, and oh ya, I have school tomorrow.
My favorite wallaby, it had beautiful stripes on its face.
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