Wine Tasting and Waterfalls

PATTYMELON!

Me at the top of Python Rock
One of the beautiful waterfalls on our day hike

I haven't been able to write the last couple of days because we have been at O'Reilly's in Lamington, a subtropical rainforest! It was absolutely positively amazing! I'm in love. It was a tiring three days, but well worth it. We actually split up into two groups for this part of the trip. It's been really nice having a smaller group of people to work with, but it won't last much longer.

So, thursday was basically just traveling and then we went on a little hike to Python Rock for the sunset. The real work started the next day, when we did some field work. We did a bunch of surveying and went to the Wishing Tree. There was this canopy tower that you could climb up and see all around you. Jackie ended up falling off the ladder on one of the levels (luckily it was multi-leveled instead of a straight 30 feet) and gashing her head. She had to have seven stitches! That afternoon we went on a lovely hike through the forest some more, had an amazing dinner (breakfast and lunch were nothing special but I gorged at night), and then had a lecture. The evening ended with a Glow Worm walk. At a little stream there were tons of glow worms, and it was basically like look at a night sky plastered to the wall!

The next day (Saturday) we took off at 9am and spent the whole day hiking. I mean, we stopped every half hour to look at waterfalls, and for lunch and to do a little field project. We got back around 4:30pm. People studied a bit for the test the next morning and then bounded off for happy hour. Dinner was great, again, and I stuffed my face. Then, that night we went on the "Gecko Walk" and saw some night critters like possums, leaf-tailed geckos, and pattymelons. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday, we took a test and had lunch with the other half of the group. Then we were whisked off to a wine tasting. The winery was called Canungra Valley Vineyards. We tried five wines, but I only liked the last, which was the dessert wine. What can I say, I have a sweet tooth. Anyways, that was the excitement for the day. Now, I have the next three days off and I plan to get a lot accomplished!

-Signing Off