Barmah Forest Trip & Visit To Melbourne

Worldviews lecture was cut short due to fire drill. Everyone rather stand in the sun than listening to the weekly philosophical lecture.


The guys above 25 (only three of us) gets a chance to drive the bus on trips and get paid 25AUD/hour. The rest of the young punks don't get a chance cos insurance don't cover them. This time Liam gets paid as he study!


Bus rides like this last for one to five hours. The longer ones are the kind I buay tahan...noisy...smelly...dirty....


On this trip, we study the human activities that affects the Murray River which is the longest in Australia. We also took a look at the Barmah forest state park...where we saw wild horses and emus...they run too fast...cannot catch a shot of them in time.


Flood levels through the years.


Unlike the ang mohs the Aboriginal people in the past don't believe in chopping down trees. So they cut part of it out to make canoes or furniture. Scar trees like this one can be found throughout Australia.


I had at least a Singapore kakhi along on this trip. Suzanna who is doing her postgrad studies in Outdoor Ed decided to tag along for the trip. We had sushi for dinner and the ang mohs was so amazed that we can do that in the field. Swa ku!


"Kumpung Singapore"! The 20 year old Macpac tent vs my 300SGD "Nut" tent on the right!


An overview of a dried up lake in Barmah Forest. Photo was taken on top of a tree I climbed. Can see the ang mohs were up to something among the Giant Rushes...their kind of lalang.


Stunt one: As usual, they got bored and started running and diving into the rushes. Then later... like the previous trip, some started stripping and taking nude shots in the grass. I discovered the ang mohs just have this habit of stripping...


Stunt two: While studying the thick amount of duck weed on the river, Beck took up the dare to cross the river by crawling over the weeds without getting wet. Result: She failed horribly and had to endure a wet trip back home.


The Great Wall of Instant Noodles! You can find all the varieties of instant noodles on this seven 30meters shelves in the Melbourne Asian grocer.


Manage to find the new Hardrock climbing gym in Melbourne!


...but very crowded. Nice place though...look like Camp 5 in KL but slightly smaller. Earlier that day Suz and myself went around Melbourne shopping for my wetsuit. We went to have tim sum in chinatown as well. Just to show that life here is not as bad as it seems to some of you...