Sooo i wrote this last week but i never posted it!:
Day 1:
we left school at 6:45 am and it was about a two and a half hour bus ride to Meebunn Bia and when we got there we met our two leaders that took us around Meebunn for the rest of our time there. they were amazing and got us pumped playing icebreaker games and stuff.. then we hiked for while and we got to this pretttttty steep hill/cliff-ish thing and there was a trail that went around its basin BUT we hiked STRAIGHT up it (no trail no switchbacks no NOTHING) and ate lunch on the top.. then we hiked straight back down the other side down to the trail that wraps around the basin and hiked some more (obviously AU as the home of the worlds most deadliest spiders and snakes means nothing to most aussies).. then we did this low ropes course.. then more hiking.. then we set up camp (two tarps one on the bottom and one on the top held up by these metal poles).. then another little walk.. then a high ropes course which was the best one ive ever seen! and it was sooo hard! it was awesome and i was the first person to go on it!.. then we went on the "flying fox" which was this huge zip line (at one time was the longest zipline in all of queensland or something like that but its def not anymore)... then DINNER!!!! :) then bed.. a possom came into our tent in the middle of the night and i used my special screaming skills to scare it away haha... OH YEAA!!! and our drinking water at camp was this water from a tank that caught all the rainwater but it was kinda dyed orangish brown from the contact with eucalyptus leaves AND was full of mosquito larva..like literally there were like 10-15 larvae in each 1.5 L water bottle it was pretty sick haha AND aussie mozzies are BIG and large mozzies= LARGE larvae.. BUT atleast we had a toilet.. well it was a drop toilet but at least it was inside a shelter
Day 2:
we woke up then started our navigation portion.. each group of 4 people had a compass a topographic map and 15 places that we were supposed to find.. it was AWESOME!! we basically had to follow rivers and contours of mountains and use our compasses to find our way around Meebunn Bia it was sooo fun! but the grass here is pretty POKEY and scratchy and even though i was wearing tall socks it really kinda hurt because.. once again.. we werent hiking on trails!! i dunno what's with these aussies but they for some reason they dont mind drifting off trails and walking through knee high grass (poisonous creatures and all).. i did walk STRAIGHT into 2 huge golden orb webs face first in my mouth and all.. but other than that no close calls.. after our navigation we ate lunch packed up camp and hiked up the HUGEST uphill portion of my life to our second camp.. we set up camp.. this one just had a toilet on a platform down this trail with no walls or barriers just a free standing toilet in the middle of a trail (kinda awkward).. then we ran up this awesome hill to see ROCK WALLABIES which are suuuper cute! and reallly rare too i guess! and we saw this AWESOME sunset!.. then we came back to camp and ate dinner and went to bed but the ENTIRE time we were being harassed my stinking possums!! BUT in AU possums are cute wayy different than the opossums back home.. they were all up in our stuff ALL night tho and they didnt care about humans like i could have pet them and they wouldnt have cared.. it was KINDA ANNOOYYYINNGG!!!.. AND!! this one ran across the top of our tent (this time it was two tarps one on the ground one draped across a rope that was tied to two trees) and the possum ran across the rope in between the trees and it was SOO LOUD and we all freaked out cus it sounded like something was attacking the tarp hahaha it was preeety funny when we figured out what really happened
DAY 3
we got up at like 5 to see the sun RISE this morning.. i really didnt think it was worth it for the entire first part.. then after a while the sun actually began to peak over the mtns and clouds and it was SOOO AMAZING best sunrise ive EVER seen! sooo awesome! the clouds were prefect and the view was perfect (we were on the same mtn top as the sunset and its this hill with a 360 degree view of all around Meebunn) ahh it was amazing then we ate lunch finished cleaning up the camp then went on another hike to this OTHER ropes course and we did this double decker ropes course with an attached "umbilical cord" from our harness to our partners harness that was only like 3 feet long so it was SUPER hard to get around ANYWHERE because you were always getting tangled!! my partner and i were the first people to go.. we were completely confused as to how to go about getting anywhere and we ended up being one of two groups out of the 6 to actually finish AND we had the best time too! 3 minutes faster than the other group that finished! i was SOOO proud of us! cus it was SOOOO HARD!!!... then we went to this other free fall element where you jump off this 40ft high platform into a free fall but then get caught with this pulley system.. amazing! i screamed like a little girl im not gunna lie haha :) then we came back to base and got all of our stuff organized and i was washing dishes and i happened to sit in this green aunt hill and i ended up with like 10 aunts in my pants! and while i was scooping them out one of them bit me!! and it hurt SOOO bad!! (its kinda like a bee sting and it gets all swollen and everything haha)
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