Whale watching, crocodile hunting and fighting dingoes in Australia!
Although “two 4×4s, camping gear, maps, 16 nutters, wild dingos, 300 beers and 6 boxes of goon” may sound like the perfect set-up for an adult version of Wacky Races, it is in fact the shopping list that STA’s wild explorer Hip21 has deemed suitable for her tour of Fraser Island in Australia.
And while I couldn’t begin to summarise the myriad of adventures she had there (you really must read it all for yourself over on her blog) – I will take the liberty of passing on her conclusion to the day – which was rather positive, even though there was a lot of dangerous dingos loitering, campsite woes and more.
“It was stunning and a really wicked experience. We both had the times of our lives but the camping and the group work is defo not for me! Digging a hole to wee in whilst having friends with us with weapons to hit dingos if they came is just not my idea of fun. But, I’m so happy we did it, we survived and we had the best time ever ever ever!!” That’s three ‘evers’… Must be REALLY good!
Coupled with that, she’s spent a day at Australia Zoo, home of the Crocodile Hunter – which was “all in all, such a good, but very sad day” being as it was the 2nd anniversary of his death – not to mention an incredible trip Whale-watching at Harvey Bay.
“The whales would come so close to the boat and they were absolutely huge!! The additional excellent thing about this boat was that it had a platform at the back which lowered down to the actual sea level so we were practically touching then when they were playing around by us. They love human attention and we were told to wave our arms because they look for that, and call them too.”
And that’s just a snippet of what Hip21 is up to at the moment in Australia – for more updates, full of inspiring ideas of what to do in the outback, follow this link and bookmark ahoy.
Photo courtesy of Chewy Chua on flickr.
