To the Grampians and beyonddd

Kamron and I decided that it would be a better choice to drive to the Grampians for a day, return our rental car the following morning, and then visit Adelaide (SAMMMM).  Needless to say we were pushing it for time.  Luck was not on our side as we started our public transportation to the rental car place.  We ended up barely missing two trams – no fun.  We finely made it out around noon.  We made the few hour trek to the Grampians information center to find out what the must sees were for the area.  Thank goodness we did, because of the severe rain storms that Australia had in January and February some of the road were closed.  The roads were covered in dirt from landslides.  This meant that we would have to make a couple hour trek to the sites instead of a forty-five minute drive.  That’s okay though because I got to see my first untamed kangaroo.  As we were driving through the Grampians, we saw a million free-range kangaroos.  Thus giving in to the stereotype that there are kangaroos all over the place.

We decided to stop off at the Beehive Falls, where we discovered that we could spend days hiking through the Grampians.  Bucket list item, I think yes.  There were so many great hiking and camping areas through out the Grampians!  We got some wonderful pictures.  After Beehive Falls, we traveled to the MacKenzie Falls and the Broken Falls.  Unfortunately, because of the bad rainfall, the lower view of MacKenzie Falls was closed.  Part of the path (which was a bridge) had fallen to rubbish.  Naturally, Kamron felt the need to explore down the path a bit, so we did.  We didn’t go to far because eventually we reached the non-existent bridge. 

Next we drove to the Boroka Lookout. By this time it was getting rather dark, so we couldn’t see much from the lookout.  It overlooked a few cities (Halls Gap I think), and would have been gorgeous during the day.  It was neat to see the cities lit up from above though.  Now the trek to Adelaide.  Whew.  We stopped at an Asian restaurant along the way, which was phenomenal!  It was a bit on the expensive side, but what isn’t expensive in Australia?  I can answer that.  Nothing.  Kamron and I drove through the night, in order to make it to the car rental place on time.  We didn’t want to get charged to an extra day just because we were over by fifteen minutes.  Because Australia is awesome, they post signs for taking power naps.  Most of them are along the lines of “microsleeps kill.”  Talk about giving someone motivation to pull over.  Dang.  Kamron and I stopped whenever we felt the slightest bit drowsy, since the “only way to cure fatigue is sleep” – also sign worthy in Australia.