It was a nice, mostly leisurely hike, and an absolutely perfect day. We started up along a dry ridge with great views, then had a fairly steep drop down into a more lush ravine, and popped out on this secluded little beach. We hung out there for a while and ate/swam/slept/tide-pooled (sure, that's a verb)/sunned/explored as we wanted. Then we popped over the ridge to look at another beach (not nearly as nice as 'ours'), and headed back up to the top and out to a lookout.
Poor Sasha quickly realized the draw-backs of going hiking with a bunch of biologists, but he tolerated us quite well. We stopped to check out all kinds of things. We found a cool cockatoo (yes, they're all cool), two different kind of carnivorous plants (which we barely managed to escape!), and a few goannas (we can't say it quite like Steve Irwin, yet - nor can we tackle them like he could... Speaking of the Croc Hunter, though, one of Ben's other lab-mates used to work at Steve Irwin's Nature Park).
Is the red thing in the photo an anemone? - can't quite tell. (Or someone's internal organs - maybe Shasha was the one who should be afraid!)
ReplyDeleteYep - cute little sea anemones who were conspiring with the ocean to not have their picture taken, but I got a few shots, anyway. Should have gotten Olympus' underwater camera!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah!? - well you're not the only ones to see cool animals...Grandma Ellie and I saw a Praying Mantis outside the doctor's office today! We didn't try to tackle him either (What would Steve Irwin say?)
ReplyDeleteGrandma says THANK YOU THANK YOU for the blog! We love seeing your pictures and hearing about all your new adventures!!!