Grampians National Park Day Trip
When most people think of Australia, the first thing they think of is a kangaroo. And if you are like me and most of my friends, you don’t really think about it too much and you just assume that kangaroos are hopping all around. Well, to be very honest, we are not that far from the truth. Not that you have to wait for a bunch of roos when you are crossing the street, don’t imagine it like that :P But what I mean is that they are all over, when one steps outside of the big city. Australia does a very good job in preserving their wildlife in the wild, where you can actually see them in nature, doing their thing. I think that’s pretty cool!
I am saying this because I thought about animals in Bulgaria or the USA and then I realized that you’d be able to see wild animals like that mostly in the zoo.
Being so fascinated by this fact, I keep taking pictures of kangaroos whenever I see them. And it is super exciting to see them hop around, untroubled by anything and anyone.
This one has a little baby peeking out of the pouch and checking us out :) Isn’t that the cutest thing???
And I like taking pictures with them :) I never got tired of it!
Another thing about Australia that always cracks me up are their signs. I have been traveling quite a lot in the wild and visiting nature sights and these signs just keep appearing everywhere (and at some point, you dying just becomes a very normal warning). This one I saw at the Grampians:
I’ll try to find a couple of more, just to illustrate my point.
Snakes at the 12 Apostles:
Shani being happy to know she can DIE at the 12 Apostles:
A full list of warning signs at Great Ocean Road:
Stuff falling on your head at Great Ocean Road:
Stuff can happen to you in the city too (Melbourne):
Some more snakes in Tasmania:
Falling in rainforests:
Running into a cow and killing both you and the cow in Carins, Queensland:
Humans not allowed past this point in Grampians National Park:
So this is a short list of the signs I have seen (and was able to find now). But imagine the feeling of being constantly warned that the worst can happen to you anywhere you go (as long as you’re in Australia) :) They even have a very cute song for it (that also warns you of all the things that can happen to you here) :)
So continuing on, there were breathtaking views:
…which inspired us to sink deeply into thoughts (you know those pictures where someone stares into the nature and “thinks” – that’s what we are doing here):
And then this is the place where humans were not allowed past that sign I showed you:
I did want to take a nice picture on the edge of the cliff but when I was weighing the importance of my life or the nice picture, I picked my life. Kind of more important, you know? :)
We then saw some waterfalls, which was nice but it was raining so we didn’t stay long. This Australian weather really did show me that there can be four seasons in a day. Literally.
On our way home I saw those and I thought it is the coolest thing (although no one else was very intrigued).
So there are rocks. And that’s not the exciting part, I know. But look closer. What fascinated me was the fact that someone actually took the time to put those rocks in order and on top of each other, ordering them by size. I think it is something religious and spiritual. But all the rocks you see were there for a very specific reason. Crazy, right?
I know that the natives are very spiritual and their beliefs are derived from a sense of belonging to their land. In the museum I visited in Sydney, I read the following: “It’s all linked up with people, land, religion, it’s just one big circle.”
Not that it explains the rocks but it makes sense.
