Last minute!

Well, I’ve got a bit more packing to do, and then I’m walking over to Whitley College (one of UniMelb’s housing) to meet up with Amanda and Rosie so we can go to Tassie! I’ll be back Saturday night, but Lora and Josh are taking me adventuring and then we’re staying at Josh’s and they’re [...]

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WA Day 6-10: In which Victoria just gives up and does bullet points.

Alright, it’s official. I’m getting entirely too busy, which means not only do I not have time to write out the rest of my trip, but I keep missing out on more recent updates. Therefore, we are going through the rest of my trip in fast-forward using bullet points. Ready, set GO! -snorkeling in Coral [...]

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WA Day 5: A day in the bus.

(Copied mostly from journal) There’s these random purple flowers all around here that I just love. They’re such great splashes of colour in the landscape. We’re headed to Coral Bay! Rumour has it that Coral Bay is as good as the Great Barrier Reef, and some ever prefer it. I’m so lucky. I get to [...]

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WA Day 4: Gorges are gorgeous and conundrums are creepy.

(Mostly just copied out of my journal) More gorges! Today we went to Hancock Gorge and Weane’s (?) Gorge, which were both in the same area. I don’t think I caught the name of the first place we went to, but it was stunning. So far we’ve had day trips with hiking and swimming, and [...]

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WA Day 3: In which a picture’s worth a thousand words, which is sort of a cop-out.

I woke up before the sun had come up, to what I thought was someone at camp being weird and saying “wooooo!” like a ghost. After the fourth or fifth “wooo!” it occurred to me that I was actually hearing a dingo howl. A brief word on toilets and the outback. In general, the most [...]

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WA Day 2: Skies

As a result of how incredibly behind on my updates I am and how I’ve got the most amazing cold that has me knocked half out, most of the following reflections are copied straight out of my journal. Begin! “5.30 am start actually wasn’t that bad. We’re driving north right now so the sun is [...]

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WA Day 1: Where Victoria notices she fails in concision.

Well. I’ve only got about a million and eight updates to do. These updates will be very slow, since they’re gonna take forever to write. Be patient! Let’s start from the beginning, shall we? –Flashback sequence to September 20th. I’m pacing in my room waiting until 6 pm.— A week prior, I had gone to [...]

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Just a walk through the park

Sept 5-7th was marked by my bushwalk fieldtrip. We woke up bright and early to hop on the bus and drive out to Wilson’s Promontory, which is a state park about 3 hours southeast. (A promontory is a bit of land that juts out.) It’s absolutely stunning. We were hiking “the circuit”, which is a [...]

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In a sunburnt country

This weekend was my first field trip! I got to spend the weekend finding out what it’s like to be a farmer for my Education in Natural Landscapes class. It was quite an adventure! We drove about an hour out into the country to visit our first farm, which belongs to a man named Andrew, [...]

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