8th day

8th day

Had Maggy mee for breakfast!!!!! Wow the Maggie mee sure tastes BAD. China ones taste the best!!! Woohoo!!!!!! I don’t like Australia mees. So I resorted to cereals, which I vowed not to eat at all.

Then we took a 1 1/2 hour ride to the Jenolan caves, which is the highlight of the day!! And the highlights of the whole trip as well. Wince they sponsored our whole trip I guess it’s all right to write hao yi dian for them in the articles. Which unfortunately I had volunteered to do so as well, along with the A380. I always seem to choose the weirdest topics. As usual.

And I took some nice photos on the way to jenolan. The rest of the time spent stoning. Did I fall asleep? I’m not sure. Maybe. But I definitely don’t remember. I think towards the end I dozed off a bit. Like usual. I always sleep when its time to wake up. >.< but the photos are nice nicey!!!!!! Oooooo I like them….

And so we reached. As we had a grand draw lot ceremeony while eating mee in the morning, im proud to announce that I’m in for the plug hole!!!!! If you don’t know what that is, that’s too bad. Cos that’s the best thing you’d want to do!!!!!!!! And the coolest activity too. Like the 冒险王 show you always see on TV. Just like that type of activity.

So the reason its called plug hole is because its like a plug hole. You know, the sink you had in your house? First, the garbage and dirty water rushes in from the big open sink, then they go through the plug-hole, then enters a long tube, then the S-tube, then more long tubes and finally out of the sink territory and into the grand pipe. Which is exactly what we did.

First, put on harness and get down the hole from a rope. Forgot what that’s called, but you should know. Just watch the TV. You kick and swing and step onto the rocks and slide down. Sth like that.

Then, we went through a series of tunnels, holes, rocks, more rocks, more holes which are too small for us to BELIEVE that we can actually squeeze through, until the guide (who resembles santa claus) demo-ed to us. And so we squeezed some more, crawled like worms and TADA!!!! Slide down more slopes. Come to think of it, it really closely resembles a sink. The pipes and everything.

And on the way, we saw a squid fossil in the rock, and some words written by the ppl in the 19th century, about 150 years ago. Cool! To think how they managed to get out in the end, with candle light the stuff. (we got head lamps on our helmets you see, and we look like we work in the mines +))

And then more rocks and tiny weeneey holes to go through!!! Its really hard to describe, and I don’t have enough photos here. Haiz. Didn’t bring camera along. Anyway, there was a moment when the guide asked me to stretch my legs to reach a rock that’s like 1.5m away from me??? With each leg on one rock, and by that time cos im so short I had no choice but to let myself float on air while my other two hands held desperately to the two rocks which I could grab. And phew!!! I slided/floated/zoomed over to the other side. And these things happened a lot.

And we finished the whole adventure in about 2 or 3 hours, going 100m underground. If you really want to be fast I think you could try free-fall down, but you wouldn’t want to be tied to a rope and hung in mid air and get ppl to pull you up in the end. At least that’s what happened to some adventurers in the 1800s.

And because jenolan is also high up in the mountains, my ears hurt a lot as we came down.

Cos we were so late we were late for the Olympics park tour, since the but takes 2 ½ hours to travel back to Sydney. And so we had a tour on the bus instead. But its still quite fun la, and with the nice sceneries and everything.
Dinner: at Chinatown in a restaurant!!! Chinese food!!!! Mmmm you’d love Chinese food if you keep on eating fries steaks etc for days.