After Camp: Wollongong
Tuesday, 15 April.
The 5 of us Aaron, Camille, Jesslyn, Marie and I decided to take a trip down to Wollongong after camp ended. Its such a funny name. lol i think aussies have really unique sounding place names. Why can't it be the common Muar or Teluk Babi or whatnot.
These is kinda like Woll's Civic area, but its much more developed, and its not deserted like in Canbo.
Woll's lovely for its beaches and huge waves. The place is more Sydney-like rather than Canberra.
Although it may not look like much, these waves are crazy high!! Anyone standing on the ridge barrier had to be careful to not fall in
The sun there was absolutely gorgeous (again, not like Canbo!) which made for great pics
This is the old lighthouse. Its waaay out in the middle of the sea!
Of course i don't just judge a place by the scenery, i judge it by the FOOD!
Woll had TONS of Thai restaurants!!! i think every street had at least two. siao. But apparantly the largest budhist temple is in Woll so that explains alot. Also, it was a change to be in a place with not so many asians and uni students. It felt more like a natural Aussie setting!
we ended up eating dinner at some Chinese place. OMGoodness! i have SOO overextimated Happy's!! This place puts Happy's to shame!!! really!!!! we ate 7 dishes and there was soo much food for everyone! there was even THREE plates leftovers!!! The price?!?! = 49.20!!!!!
Not even $10 pp!!!! siao!!!!
Memories of the best laksa with everything in it will stay with me for life...
Believe it or not the HUGE veggie cost only $3.80!!!!!!
For dessert we went to Cold Rocks! i never heard of it before but it looks like they mix ANYTHING into ANY kind of ice cream and serve it. And its a really funny method. the staff have to massage the ingredients into the ice cream! I had a Ferrero Roche Shake. Walao... it felt like eating ferrero roche that had an orgasm and then getting orgasmic myself. =P
And then it was time to go back! I think the funniest thing happened. We missed the all-important highway turning and a u-turn!! Ok the turning was our fault, but the u-turn is one dodgy looking branch of road that looks like a truck stop. And there actually WAS a truck parked ON the u-turn itself!
So we ended up going all the way to Bateman's bay....almost double our journey time. Unfortunately our faithful Shelly no petrol after the next two towns, cos apparantly aussie never heard of 24 hour petrol station lol.
So we were stranded in some haunted aussie landscape..at 12.30 am!!!! Aussies sleep soo early!!! i think they n're suffering from some genetic disease that makes them sleep before the moon is fully up. not like back home, where i miss our all nite mamak stalls....
Luckily we called NRMA (like our AAA) and one grumpy guy came over with some petrol for $20.
So we reached Queenbeyan (another funny name town on the outskirts of Canbo) around 1.30. I tell you, i have NEVER been glad to see civilisation!!! i all the more love big huge cities now. plus i love Caltex! cos it was actually OPEN when we went there!! Shell tak guna!
So i reached Canberra, more accurately Ursies, around 2.30.
But what an adventure! I think we all agree that it was the best ever, and didn't regret it one bit, even if we got stranded and went through some scary mountainous regions, with death accident prone twists and turns. ...
Thats me in my "burglar suit" lol
