One of the other agency nurses recommended I have a look around Cania Gorge, near Monto. So I drove up there and it was spectacular.
Words can't describe it, so this blog will mostly be lots of pictures and captions. And I really feel that this is the most appropriate song to listen to whilst reading...
Greatest...Movie...Ever...
At the start of the walk through Cania Gorge
I'm in a cave!!!
Sandstone wall in the Dragon Cave
Black Boys at the top of the gorge
The aptly named Dripping Rock -
that's what it does
Off to the overhang... This looks promising...
The Overhang, my photos don't do it justice,
but the creek has eroded the rock away,
the gap under the overhanging rock is tall enough
to stand in
Under The Overhang
Token Selfie
Rock Wallaby!
I had a ball wandering around the forest looking at rocks. Yes, there really is not that much to do out here, so you find that little things excite you... or big things, depending on the size of the rocks I guess.
So now it's 2 more shifts to go before I go home... And no babies delivered yet!
A little over a week to go and I'm spending my day off in Bundy and Bargara.
My internet USB gave up the will to live the other day, following a
crush injury from my laptop... after I dropped it. So I had to buy
another one in Bundaberg while I was there on my day off. (Partly the
reason this blog is so overdue).
Anyway no road trip to the beach compilation is complete without the following:
So with the Chili Peppers blaring I drove 2 and half hours to Bundy. I saw this sign on the way, so of course I had to stop and
pay $9.50 to see what the hell a Mystery Crater was.
I asked the lady
at the counter, but she was giving up any info until I coughed up the
cash. Then she gave me 'directions' around this park, pointing out the
fairy garden... the viewing platform... and the antique machinery shed
(by far my favourite!)
I was initially disappointed... But then thoroughly amused.
After
walking "all the way around the craters" which took all of 5 minutes, I
was determined to get my money's worth. So I went to the viewing
platform listened to the spiel... twice.
Off to the antique machinery shed then. Passing this on the way...
Why do they always have a plastic dinosaur at these things?
The reason the machinery shed was by far the best reason for visiting this place, was this:
They
had a couple of old ploughs fenced off outside the shed, proper
antiques, so you're expecting to walk into this shed and see something
slightly similar; old farming equipment you can read plaques about what
it was used for, marvelling at how they did things in "them olden days"... No... this was a shed full of rusty lawnmowers and cement mixers
from the last 20 years, all neatly arranged side by side on shelves (no
plaques to my disappointment!). I left giggling and thinking this is absolute gold and
totally worth $9.50!
So after that I was off to Bargara for lunch on the beach. I found THE BEST SUSHI EVERRRRR! at Bargara. So it was a welcome break in the endless roast meat and veg dinners cooked by the hospital. Don't get me wrong, I'm so grateful that they have the option of buying meals from the hospital kitchen, it's just been 2 weeks straight of roast something or other, so my excitement over 3 sushi rolls is completely understandable.
Not a bad spot for lunch
Also NEW HAIR! I get the feeling I won't be able to replicate the style as well as the hairdresser...
So after all the excitement of the Mystery Craters, sushi on the gorgeous beach and a new do, I decide to head back to Eidsvold, before it gets dark and I have to worry about the roos, or as one of the girls here calls them "spring loaded car fuckers."
Then this happens, and if I had any doubt I was in the country - I don't anymore:
Twenty doughy eyes boring into my soul as I drive passed. No casualties!!
So back to Eidsvold, some more night shifts and keeping my fingers crossed that no soon-to-be-mothers go into labour on my shift.
