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Thursday, 27 March 2008

I'm back from my retreat to Wilson Prom! We set out on a bright and sunny Tuesday and I was really excited about the whole trip because i'm going to experience something different where there will be lots of hiking, nature walks and viewing of widelife.

After a 3 hours drive, we finally arrived at our destination at Yanakie, a small town 10 km away from Wilson Prom nature reserve.We check into our self-contained cabin and I fall in love with the decor. There were hand made quilts, cushions covers and even the 'key chain' was so unique.

It was already 3+ in the afternoon so we decided to do some exploring and a short walk in the reserve. There as a beach right outside our cabin and we headed right out there to take some pics.

The cabin owners stayed right next to us and they rear some cattles. Actually, i only saw 3 ox and the pic below show one of it. Every morning, I will wake up to the moo-ing of the ox. hahahaha...


Then we drove out to the park. It is one of the largest nature reserve in Melbourne in the Southernmost point in mainland Australia. The park has a length of 30km from the entrance to the other end. It was already 4pm by the time we started walking so we chose a much shorter trek so as to make sure that we can finish it before it gets dark. I was thrill to see a wild wallabee busy munching away while we were trying our best to walk very slowly pass it so as to make sure it will not be scare by us and hop away.

We saw the same wallabee again when we back track out way back. Unfortunately for us, day 2 was a disaster. Rain was pouring the entire night and i was just hoping the sky will clear in the morning. But, it just kept raining the entire day. Before we set out, we caught this beautiful rainbow right outside our cabin. It was so lovely.

Despite the rain, we decided to go back to the reserve again since we have already travelled such a long way. And then we saw this sign 'Singapore Deep 2'. I told dar i gotta take this pic. hahahaha.. it actually provides accomodation to people like us but i have no idea whether the owners are Singaporeans or not.

The weather was really bad so the pics that we took didn't have a really fantastic view, but if you were to see the actual thing, it will take your breath away because the mountains, beaches and all those vegetation look so magnificent.

More greenery hills and mountains....

We drove right to the end of the park and reach the peak. It was freezing and yes, it was still raining. The view was really great but some how the photographs just cannot catch the beauty of it. We decided to head back to our cabin but the rain seems to be getting lighter so we thought why not take a walk at the next stop on our way back. Big Mistake!! The rain started pouring again and it just came on us when we were halfway through the trek and both of us were drench and soaking wet by the time we ran back to the car.

What an experience. I would love to go back to Wilson Prom again.
Oh, on a sidenote it was really quite sad when u see wildlife got killed by cars. We seen more wallabee and wombat carcasses then living wildlife. Hai..

writtern @13:38