Alex highlights #2

Posted by efloow on October 14, 2015 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

 

I got to sit in the copilot seat and was allowed to steer the sea plane on some of the trip to Horizontal Falls where we landed on water. We also got to feed and touch sharks. There was a very fast boat that took us across the falls… They were a lot of fun and we got to sleep on a boat!

I got to canoe everybody down Dimond gorge. I liked canoeing. At Mornington Wilderness Camp we also saw Spinifex pigeons with a spike in their heads like the Spinifex and a red stripe around their eyes. I lost my front tooth!

We went on a long boat tour and got to swim with a whale shark. The skipper told me that it had one hundred and thirty dots. It was amazing because it was 6m long and we won't see them in many other places in the world and they are the biggest fish.

We toured some of the iron ore mines. The diggers were enormous. We saw conveyor belts moving the iron ore into the crusher and then into the massive stockpiles for shipping overseas. We saw lots of trains with 234 carriages and three locomotives. They were very long.

On our trip I have got to ride on quad bikes (by myself at 35kph), horses (at Bullo River Station and El Questro), fast boats, glass bottomed boats in Ningaloo, canoes, camels in Broome, and six helicopter rides.

I have caught a mud crab on a fishing line at Bullo River and speared a mud crab with a spear I made with an Aboriginal man at Cape Leveque. I have also caught a 1m dew fish… It was massive and a barracuda at KCC, which we had for lunch with chips.

In the car we listen to audiobooks of David Walliams and Percy Jackson. My favourite bit out of all of them is when Winnie in Demon Dentist eats too many coffee revels and can't control her bottom! I can do a good a West Indian accent now like Winnie's.

We saw a Kookaburra eating a small snake in the grass. We feed whistling kites by throwing leftover meat (from feeding crocodiles) in the air at Timber Creek. We saw a rock wallaby in lake Argyle with a baby in it's pouch. We also saw humpback whales with a calf and watched the calf jump a meter out of the water and saw the mother and calf slapping their tails. The baby also stuck its head up to look at us. It was very cute.

In Cape Leveque we saw where pearls come from and I got to pull a pearl out of an oyster with my little finger. Inside the pearl shell is mother of pearl that used to be used for making buttons. We also went boating in the massive tides around Buccaneer archipelago and saw humongous whirlpools as the tides moved around.