It's really a week later, but I decided I'd make a series of entries for last week. It was the field trip to Lamington National Park, and it was packed full of adventure. On Monday we hopped on our bus and drove from Brisbane to Lamington. On the way there, it started to rain for the first time since we arrived in Australia. In a perverse way this seemed fitting, since Lamington NP is in a rainforest. We arrived to a cold drizzle, and after a little while sorting out the organizational stuff we made our way to our safari tents. They were big canvas tents with wooden floors and beds. Annie and I were in the middle of a row of three tents, sandwiched between two sets of students. Here is our tent which we came to love and/or hate, depending........ :
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| View from the porch |
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| Home sweet home |
After lunch John Hall took us on our first hike in the rain. He was quite excited that we would see the forest in the rain, and so were we! We fed some leeches along the way (two for me; one for Annie) and saw some magnificent trees and lianas (the giant vines that twist and curl around the trees). We got back at dinner time, cold and hungry. Annie and I immediately bought ourselves some fleece jackets which we wore for the rest of the week.
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