I HATE LEECHES

WELLLLLL the last couple of days have been mindblowingly busy and filled with waterfall swimming, mountain bking, rainforest walking, platypus spotting and all kinds of fun stuff. We booked a tour with "On the Wallaby" Adventure tours where they took us up to a rainforest mountain town called Yungaburra. From there, we went and visited the most incredible strangler fig tree. It was really impressive and had these long, strong, beautiful roots. That day we swam in a waterfall that was SO COLD but so beautiful. There was a catfish called Wanda that kept biting everybody's ankles. That night, after a lot of bushwalking and swimming and learning, I was tuckered out. The hostel we stayed at was BEAUTIFUL. It had the cutest little dogs running around (big dogs) and some really quirky people.
So that night I didn't sleep very well as we were sleeping in the rainforest and there are HEAPS of mozzies in the rainforest. I woke up with a swollen half face, dunno why. So that day I was pretty busted and it was a pity because that was the more active day of our tour. We went mountainb iking through the rainforest which was absolutely spectacular. It poured rain that day but biking through the rainforest in the rain actually had some great charm to it. Our guide taught me a lot about Aboriginal culture here in Australia which was wonderful, as well as a lot about the general environment and our surroundings. BUT, as I found out, in Australia there are these sticky litle creatures called Terrestrial Leeches. Thats right. Leeches that live on the ground. There was the most beautiful bit of rainforest that we wandered through and I ended up picking up a leech or two on my feet. GROSSSSSS. Anyways yeah. The last two days have been pretty good. Tomorrow, we're headed down to Mission Beach where we'll stay foor one night basically only so that Sarah can do her skydive which she has been waiting for. Anyways, I'm out.

PEACE AND LOVE,
Steph