More Fun In The Forest

Before we left the rainforest, we did some other cool activities. One of the fun activities that we did was platypus watching, something you can’t do anywhere else in the world because platypuses only live in Australia. We hiked to known platypus feeding spots along rivers and streams, and then we sat still and waited for the platypuses to come out of their dens to swim around and feed. They only eat at dusk and dawn, so we had to time our arrival just right. Unfortunately platypuses are not photogenic since they are small, dark colored, and they only surface when the light is low.

We also went on a great hike/walk. We went through a very dense forest with amazing trees. The trail ended at a swimming hole with a waterfall. What a great reward at the end of a hike! Kristen could not be talked into swimming, because we couldn’t guarantee there would not poisonous critters swimming in the water. Water snakes are evidently common in the rainforest, but it doesn’t seem to deter the locals from swimming, so Blossom and I didn’t let it deter us either. We jumped in without hesitation! (Actually…in all honesty…I made Blossom jump in first, and then once she survived I jumped in too.)