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Had a great experience in the outback, was so cool to get away from the coast for a few days and experience a different side of Australia! Skies in the outback seem to be even bluer (if that's possible) than on the coast and you can always guarantee to get a sniff of cow dung every thirty or so seconds. Stayed on a huge farm which was so much fun or should I say in an Australian accent "Was a dam good wicket!".
We had to get up mega mega early to do all the farm jobs but were more than rewarded by amazing food around the camp fire! The lady who owned the farm was a great cook and she must have stuffed at least a whole cow down my neck over the few days I was there! We were cooked lovely meals everyday and could even make our own hot drinks and cook our own toast and toasted sandwiches over the fire!
We began our days by rounding up the horses and cattle, then had an early morning horse riding lesson. Following this we had the delights of mucking out the horses and cleaning them down. I'm not sure I have the "Horsey charms" but had a lot of fun trying to get my horse Amber to trot around the fields. We also got to milk the cows, collect chicken eggs, chase the baby calf around, feed baby kangaroos and wallabies and make beer. Was such a cool few days and we even had proper motorbike lessons (none of your simple automatic Thailand bikes I tell you!!!).That was amazing fun but not so much fun for one of the lads in our group who came off and broke his leg. He had to be taken to the local hospital and we soon found out his leg had been broken in 2 places.
Everyone fell in love with the baby roos; they were so cute and were always bouncing around the fields or around us for more bottled milk! They loved being picked up and carried around the farm! I now want one as a pet!
Forgot to tell you all that last week I dived on amazing sight off double point where there was massive grey nurse sharks. The current that day was the strongest I have ever experienced, it really was choppy and we had our doubts about if we should descend down the line. Anyway the instructor assured us we would be fine once we got down past the pinnacle. Hmmmmmmmm the conditions were even worse under water, never experienced swell like it. I was at 5m and was dragged by the current to the top of the pinnacle and washed into the sharp rocks. Quite a scary experience and everyone had to return to the boat as nobody could descend. The instructor then decided to descend down to the sharks around the other side of the pinnacle. The water was much calmer here and we saw about 16 grey nurse sharks in front of us, biggest sharks I have seen yet. We were also lucky enough to see humpback whales 5m from our dive boat- incredible sight to see!
Now I'm FINALLY off to Cairns to dive the Great Barrier Reef..
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