Minyon Falls and Rocky Creek Dam

This picture is upstream of the main waterfall of Minyon Falls, which is a 100 meter drop.



This is a picture of the stream at Minyon falls.



This is a picture of a Noisy Minor bird that we saw at Rocky Creek Dam during the barbecue.


This is a picture of us all standing in the river upstream of Minyon Falls



This is a picture of Minyon Falls (as you may have guessed)

Today we got to visit Rocky Creek Dam and Minyon Falls (as mentioned in the title). When European settlers first arrived they planted a lot of foreign plants to make the place feel more like home and to help conquer the harsh flora in the area. In the area where the falls and dam are in they have been weeding out the foreign plants and replacing them with indigenous ones. As we went through the trails Noah pointed out various species of plants and what not including one that has tiny little spines all over and feels like fire upon contact with it. Other than that we had a barbecue lunch in which I had Kangaroo. Tastes pretty good. It's a red meat kind of similar to beef. Would definitely have more. I posted some pictures of the area as I'm at the uni right now and have somewhat decent bandwidth though there is a cap on total amount of data transfer I can do.

Winding down to the end of the class now and looking at things I'll be doing in Sydney and the like. I'll probably be seeing Transformers on the largest movie screen in the world.

From the imax site:

The IMAX Theatre Sydney in Darling Harbour is home to the world's largest cinema screen at 29.42m high by 35.73m wide (96.52ft high by 117.22ft wide) – covering an area of more than 1,015 square metres (10,925.37 square feet). They just don't come any bigger!
...Up to eight storeys high, they are ten times larger than a tradtional cinema screen and fills the whole field of human vision.

The pancake breakfast today was quite good with whip cream and mixed berry topping (straw, ras, and blue I think)

CORRECTION: I previously sited my ostrich encounter in Currumbin, it was an emu I was later corrected. They had both there I just mistook one for the other.

Additionally, when we visited Protester Falls, there was a tree that had fallen down going over the creek sometime ago. I of coursed traversed the log rather than the bridge. After making it across, Noah said he'd been daring students for years to cross the log but that no one ever had.

In any event, thats all I got for now, will post more later....