Hey people,
Well we woke up at 8am this morning so the early night did the trick. We took about 30 mins top pack up our stuff because we didn't have much to pack away because we didn't stay long. You never guess what happened though, while we were packing Phoebe brought up the topic of Bob. Do you remember, the rat? Anyway, I just ummed and ahhh when needed and then thought it was time to tell the truth. I told her everything and she wasn't very happy but said he should come back!
We called the cab once we had, again, found reception and then we were away from the lodge and heading to the Hunter Wetlands by 9am.We arrived at the hotel we were in at about 10am and we were walking distance from the wetlands. We decided to go out and have some breakfast because we hadn't had any yet.Once we had had breaky we headed to the Wetlands and it was about 11am by then.
The Wetland scenery was incredible. It was so peaceful and we were very, very relaxed. We decided to go fishing first and we caught lots of tiny fish that were very colourful. We tried terribly hard not to kill them but I accidently slipped on the wood and stepped on one. Phoebe thought I was scared and did it on purpose, as if!!! I swear I didn't!!!
Once we had done enough fishing we went for an hours walk around the park. It was stunning and we couldn't believe all the different species of birds there. The wetland has over 213 bird species living there. There is 72 typical wetland birds some such as geese, ducks etc. Them there are 67 water birds and 9 migratory species. Some of my personal favourites were the honeyeaters and cuckoos. There were so interesting to watch. The mammals were also very cute, including foxes, different rabbits and also mice, rats and bats. (the bats we didn't see though because they are nocternal) My favourite was the banidicoot. They were so cute!!! They were little brown mice like things, with long tails and brown fur. They were about 3 times the size of a mouse really but their features were alot the same. They also have massive ears!!! There was also different species of frogs, reptiles and plants. Oh we also saw a really big snake and it scared the heck out of Phoebes and I!!!
After the walk we were rather warm so decided to go canooing. Neither Phoebe or myself had been cannooing in our lives and we were kind of nervous, but once we were out there we soon picked up the hang of it and had so much fun. We nearly capsized at one point!Once we were off the water we were very hungry and decided to get luch at the cafe Nourish which was surrounded by bush and the birds kept flying by so gracefully. We could have stayed there forever. Lunch was very nice but extremely expensive!!! It cost more than our stay at our hotel for one night!!!
Once we had had our luch it was about 5pm so we decided to head home, well to the hotel!!!We were really tired and fell to sleep without dinner at about 7pm.
I think we are going to go for another walk at the wetlands tommorow before we head to Antarctica!!!!
Oh my gosh I can't wait to go see the seals in antartica, they are my favourite!!!
Bye for now
mon xo
P.S. here are some pics of the wetlands!
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