Today we went to the Currumbin Rock Pools. To me, it was a mix of the forested areas with trees and rivers that you would seen in New Hampshire and some tropical trees and weather (it rained on us for a bit). It only took us about 25 minutes to drive out to this place. They said it is one of Queensland's Nation Parks. It was basically on the side of a mountain so the river was super cold and the rocks were really slippery. I ended up getting a leach on me that we had to burn off with a lighter. There were a lot of waterfalls and cliffs to dive off of. I didn't realize this until we already did it but people are not allowed to swim or cliff dive in these areas. Australians are just crazy and don't care I guess. It was a "do at your own risk kind of thing".
It was kind of a back woodsy way that you had to climb up to get to the cliff. There is no set trail for anything so I got a bit of rock climbing in as well today. I am really glad that I wasn't a girl about it by waiting up there and thinking too much about it. They just counted down and I went. All the girls waited for forever to do it until everyone was complaining at them for making them wait. The cliffs were like 10 meters or so. Not sure what that is in American but it looked high up to me. I ended up jumping off the first cliff twice and another cliff once. I didn't cover my nose the first time so water shot up there and into my mouth. I was coughing quite a bit. The water was extremely deep though and I never touched the bottom when jumping.
They haven't posted any pictures of me jumping yet but this giver you a good idea of how high up the cliffs are.
I feel like if I can jump off a cliff I can do skydiving now. It is tomorrow! I have to be ready by 5:15 am which is going to suck though. Not sure how I am going to stay awake. Adrenalin I guess. Here is a video one of the Aussies took jumping off the cliff. Hopefully you can view it.http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150107976787529
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