Grampians tour

We went on the Highlights full-day tour in the Grampians National Park, it was excellent. Our tourguide was a funny man, that seemed to know everything about everything in the park. We saw great waterfalls, crazy looking animals real kangaroos, (and more wallabys - which our previously reported spotting turned out to be). Not that it really matters if it is a Kangaroo or Wallaby, they look pretty much the same, and do the same thing: jump around. We also saw emus, which are hilarious-looking birds that do not fly, just run around with a crazy hair-do.

We also learned about the most dangerous animal in Australia - the ants. There are Bull Ants and Jumping Jacks, 4 cm and 1-1.5cm long respectively. They both sting you, with a pain (we heard, not experienced thankfully) similar to a wasp-sting, and if you are unlucky the anaphylactic shock will kill you. If you're lucky, it will just hurt you for a few weeks. And they are everywhere: on handrailings, the ground, the benches. Joding almost got a Jumping Jack on his hand when holding on to the handrail near the MacKenzie Waterfalls, and and I stepped right into their path when trying to pull a small tree that had fallen across the road. I shrieked, jumped around (maybe that is why they are called jumping Jacks, they make their victims jump about), and brushed them off me. I was lucky, no sting. The actual reason for them being called jumping Jacks are because they actually jump themselves. Onto your leg and bite you.

How humiliating - killed by an ant. Well, that won't be us!

We tried to call our respective parents a little while ago. The result was an anticlimax. Joding's parents' phone was busy, and my mum had just gone for a walk with some of her stupid kindergarten kids.