Treetop Walk

After surviving the camping trip in the Otways, Blake and Chris decided to take us to see some other great sights in the area.

A piece of advice: DON'T TRUST A TOM TOM! Blake's Tomtom swore this was a real road and that our destination was 50 more meters. Who would have thought Blake's ax would actually come in handy....

The Otways meeting the ocean (look really hard)

Finally, we made it to the Otway Fly Treetop Walk. This is a huge walkway made of steel and located in a temperate rainforest. This is the Boomerang Tree, which is on the path to the steel walkway.

There is also a Prehistoric Path which is a big fern gully. You can find some random dinosaurs too...

This is called "the Big tree." Someone went all out to name it.....

The treetop walk is 25 meters above the forest floor. There are only 3 other steel canopy walks in the world and they're all in Australia! This one has only been open since 2003.

This is the Spiral Tower, which is 47 meters above the forest floor and a great observation point.

More trees....it really felt like we were just walking on top of them.

The steel walkways as seen from the Spiral Tower

This is the forest version of a wishing well. Situated away from the walkway, people toss change on it and try to make it land on top of this huge stump. Even25 meters up you can see heaps (haha...Australians love this word) of coins all over the forest floor. I saw a sign that said they donated all of the money to some kind of children's hospital or something.

Youngs Creek

Underneath the walkway

This hike wasn't as adventurous as the previous day's hike, but there also weren't any machetes involved. It was great to see a different part of Australia and remember that it's not all beaches. I have been very busy at school, but I will try to post some things about what I'm doing there and my upcoming weekend trip to Port Campbell. I hope you're not snowed in!