G’day Mates! Maddie coming at you with the weekly blog of the beuaoooooooooooooootiful week with the conservation of australia including Katie, Ori, Ben, and Simone. I would like to send a shoutout to the fam; Daddio (whats good), Tray, Beans, Auntie M, Bubba and Riley hope your all doing well! We started off the week with a stunning sunset ferry to the beautiful kangaroo island. Our time at Kangaroo Island was filled with full days work of volunteering in the native bush We created piles for controlled fires and cut down invasive species such as pine trees. We spent the afternoon at the animal conservation, playing and feeding kangaroos and hanging out with some koalas. The kangaroos took a special liking to Simone, but not so much Katie – she got drop kicked by a kangaroo! We had an amazing time bonding with all of the animals. The next day, after work we headed to a beautiful beach for some relaxation and handstands. Our final day on Kangaroo Island we spent time at the “Little Sahara” which is one of the best sights of Kangaroo Island – with steep dunes, bright blue skies and the softest sand you can imagine. After we spent some time at the dunes we went to a dock and watched the sunset. After the sunset we headed home – but managed to get pretty lost so we ended up in the car for two hours instead of half an hour – oops! Nevertheless, we had a great time.
Thursday morning we headed back to Adelaide. We arrived at around noon and spent the afternoon exploring the Central Markets looking through health stores and sampling delicious food. That night we watched “Cool Runnings,” arguably one of the best movies of all time (hands down our favorite character was the guy with the dreadlocks). After the movie, we caught up on some sleep and then headed to Brookfield Conservation Park. We arrived sometime in the afternoon and spent our time exploring the conservation park. The next day we checked out the charcoal pits (about 100 years ago, the park was a major site for burning wood to create charcoal) and went on a nature walk. On the walk we saw lots of warrens (small burrows under the ground where wombats live) and saw lots of wombat and kangaroo poop. Ori actually ate some wombat poop which was pretty disgusting/funny. The majority of the day we spent trimming trees and pulling whorehounds (an invasive weed). The next morning we continued pulling some whorehounds, and then we headed back to Adelaide to reunite with the rest of the group. We missed the other guys, but Roo Crew had an AWESOME time together.
Also – special thanks to Kathryn our CVA leader! Kathryn was super cool, funny and smart and we are so lucky we had the opportunity to meet her.
That’s all for now – more updates soon!
Love,
Maddie
P.S HI SPANKY, COCO, MORGAN, AND BISCUIT!!!