Second weekend in Armidale
Posted by Sarah O'Neill , Monday, 21 March 2011 19:53
So the week passed with Ben working, and me working Monday and Tuesday and Thursday. I decided not to work any 11.30-7.30 shifts anymore, as it meant Ben had to walk home and also I was getting home late and Ben was having to wait to eat dinner, so Thursday was only from 11.30-4.30 which worked so much better. I had lots of things on my to-do list for the time we had in Armidale so I got through a few things on the list too! I spent a lot of time researching our stay in Fiji, (one of the jobs on the list!), and found myself with information overload! There are around 300 islands, so knowing where to start was difficult! I spent a lot of hours on the internet! The weekend came around quickly and we were both looking forward to a lie in! I had a lovely lie in, but Ben was wide awake, typical, and so got up and made me a cup of tea when I woke up! Ben's work had asked him to stay for an extra week, and so we needed to work out if we could afford the time, as we knew we were running out if time to do all the tings we wanted before we left Australia. We spent Saturday working it all out, and planning every day of the two and half weeks we would have left if we stayed down to the minute and worked out that we could stay! Ben wasn't too keen on working an extra week, but we both knew it would help so much financially, and neither of us can work at any other point in our travels as we won't have the right visas! We planned our time after we leave Armidale, and have booked a 2 night 3 day cruise around the Whitsunday Islands, and then a 2 night 3 day trip on Fraser Island, where you go with a big group, and drive a convoy of 4WD exploring the island and staying in camps together. So, once we have travelled up north, and done the trips, we have to get back down to the Gold Coast, where we plan to sell the car, and have only 3 days to do so! Then we fly from the Gold Coast to Sydney, stay in the airport hotel, and fly to New Zealand on 13th April! It all seems very strange that we will be leaving Australia so soon, as we have been here so long. Even though we are still only just over half way through our trip, it kind of feels like we're on the home stretch now which is pretty scary! I am so excited to see everyone at home and spend time with family and friends, but also don't want the trip to be over, but I know this time is going to fly by! Will have to make sure we savour this time!
pressie! It was a 'Body Bliss' massage that he had booked for me on Monday, hence why he had to give it to me early! I was sooooo looking forward to that! We had bacon sarnies for brunch and then headed out to Dangar Falls to explore. These falls drop 120m, so not as big as Wollomombi, but still awesome. We have decided we definitely like waterfalls! We did a 3km round walk to different lookout points and enjoyed the views. It was a hot and sunny day, so drank lots of water! Ben scared me trying 
to get good photos of the waterfall, climbing over the railings! He is so naughty! The walk didn't take us as long as we thought, so we decided to pop to Gara Gorge
as well. The signpost had a round route walk that was 5.5km, and foolishly we decided to do it, even though we had not water left! It was very hot and a longer walk, but it was very beautiful and we saw lots of lizards! Ben tried to climb a very large rock formation, but than
kfully gave up pretty quick when he thought about how he would get down!!! The views were spectacular and the pictures just don't do it justice! We commented on how some of it looked l
ike we were at Shaugh Prior in England, especially the river with boulders in! But then other bits are so different and the landscapes are so amazingly different! All in all we had walked over 8.5km and felt like we had done our exercise for the weekend!! Had a good skype chat with Carol and Mike, last one for a couple of weeks as they go on holiday! Had a relaxing evening after all out walking and got ready for the week to come! 
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