Right after I got home from the dog races last night a huge thunder/lightning/rain storm came in. Abby and I had to run to close the windows because water was coming in. The rain his very hard and lightning was very powerful and a bit scary--trees were blowing everywhere, things left outside were flying around. It would be great for falling asleep though and I was exhausted.
I had my online class in the morning so got up, made some oatmeal (a bit chillier today so oatmeal was very soothing), and listened to my lecture.
I also skyped Megan today and my family----I miss everyone from home so it was great seeing and talking to everyone today! I am very grateful for skype. I got some work done and then headed out for a bike ride. I wanted to ride all the way to the big rock/peak which was about 4 miles down the beach, I had never gone there and wanted to see what it was like---I went with a couple other guys and we headed down the beach on our bikes---the wind was in our favor and pushed us along down the beach! It took us about a half hour to make it down and then we caught an exit to follow the street all the way up and around the big peak. If we wanted to we could have scaled the large rock, but that looked quite dangerous without any ropes or safety nets so we took the gravel road. This was not much easier actually. It was completely uphill when we started--I stood the entire time on my bike--this took about 20-25 min to make it up to White's Beach (more secluded beach). We parked our bikes and peered over the edge. We were really high up and now had to climb down to get to the water. There were some stairs and some rocks--almost like a mini Mt. Warning! The view was just beautiful!
We made it down and looked into the water to find a man swimming...completely naked--I guess clothing was optional at this beach. We decided to head over to a cave on the right but found the water got too deep so we turned around and went to explore another secluded beach---we had to head back into the waves--only going up to my chest this time---I brought my camera and phone just in case so I had to hold those above my head to make it but we reached another secluded beach and hung out there for a little while. We saw a couple there as well---had some champagne, a picnic lunch---what a great place to take someone like that! There were tons of rocks to climb, beach to lay on, water to cool down----what a relaxing place! We explored a little longer and then headed back up the path, on to our bikes, and back down to the beach entrance-this time is was all downhill and went by super fast. We entered the beach and rode down the sand--today was the perfect day to go because there was really no wind so although we had to fight the wind going back, there was nothing pushing against us. What an awesome discovery--we shared it with the other students when we returned!
The second round of volleyball games were tonight so two games went down and they were both very good games---unfortunately my team won the first match and lost the second two (we played rally scores of 15 and both of the last matches went past 15) so I would not go on---I have next week to try again though! Mmmm then I was hungry and I made some chicken kebabs, a sweet potato, and some corn for dinner followed by a dessert night at the Avila with 5 students. Mmmmm this was my favorite dessert night so far---apple crisp, oatmeal squares with chocolate chips (much like baked oatmeal--mmm so good), ice cream, a s'more dish Terry Avila (Professor's wife) made, grapes, and cantaloupe, and of course lamingtons (white cake with cream fuilling, covered in chocolate and coconut shavings)--its a traditional Australian dessert. Mmmm delicious!
I went back to plan a couple more trips I would take and then was off to bed!!! Tomorrow would be a busy busy day---off to Sydney I go!
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