Grampians

30 Dec 2007 - Grampians

The days were starting to get hotter. And I mean in the late 30 degrees. The day we went to Grampian, the temperature at Melbourne was 32. Not too bad right? We were so wrong!

It was 39 degrees in Grampians!! Urps!

In Beaufort Town, having our morning tea.

I was making tea with the various requests - kosong for Sil and Tricia, with milk for HuiHui and Rui (she wants milk with tea), and teh-o for myself. The cute German in orange tee is looking at the camera! Heh.

After some morning tea and biccies, we went to the Brambuck National Park for a short walk.

The start of the many long walks under the hot sun!

To find ermm.... kangaroos. Hmmmmm

Along the way, we saw this rock that was some way off and decided to climb onto it.

Climbing up was the easy part. And this was before my left foot which was the one supporting my whole weight slip off the rock and I nearly slipped off the rock and down below. Scary. Was clinging on to my dear life while Sil pulled from the rock and HuiHui pushed from below. Haha. I am clumsy.

The victorious climb.

Now, going down is the difficult part, coz there is not much foothold. The one that we used to climb up was directly below the main surface of the rock. Luckily Rob, our tourguide and driver helped us.

I remembered that he say "You Singaporean girls are so troublesome" in a joking manner. And I sorta said something along the line of us taking escalators and lifts and not climbing rocks nor trees, and that's why it was so difficult for us. Haha. True ain't it?

The trees provide minimal coverage under the hot burning sun. When the temp get this high, you feel as if the rays of the sun is biting into your skin, and you can almost hear the sizzle on your skin.

A chair for Bob.

Reids Lookout - Jaws of Death, the Balconies

The Jaws of Death.

MacKenzie falls.

There were, if I don't remember wrongly, 3 different routes to take. And we chose the most difficult one, which will take us to the bottom of the falls. And it was a 1.16km walk (to and fro), with a 100m of stairs (abt 25storey?) which will take us to the bottom of the stairs. The distance doesn't sound like alot. Factor in the hot weather and you'll understand why it was so straining.

When I saw this, I thought we were reaching. But this was just the top of the falls. More stairs!!

Finally reached the bottom!

The waters as usual look really inviting. But we din go in. There were people, kids included, swimming inside and I think they are really silly. There were signs telling people that swimming is prohibited, and Rob said that people had died in it, coz the undercurrents are really strong.

Borocca lookout.

The land down below was where we had our lunch. Real cool.

Then it was finally back to Melbourne. Sunset pics taken on the bus.