A Gorgeous Gorge

From Bundaberg, where I had a great birthday and presents, we continued on towards Rockhampton. At the caravan park we stayed at there was a jumping pillow. A jumping pillow is a large inflatable mattress made of rubber, when bounced on it can propel you upwards. They are really fun to bounce on. We made a few friends. Some of them were German, English and South African. Dad introduced Rennie and I to the South African boys who were twins, I think they were identical. From my Grandmother and Grandfather in Scotland I got birthday money and with it I got a brand new digital watch. It has an alarm, stopwatch and it tells the day, month and date, it is also waterproof! One day dad announced that we were going to go to the cultural centre. I thought that it wouldn’t be very exiting but dad said it would. When we got there we went to a rock climbing centre. Only Rennie and I had proper turns. Both Mum and dad couldn’t do more than one turn because they had to look after Jarra, the man at the counter let them have a turn each, it was really fun to do climbing. Another day we all went out. Again, Rennie, Jarra and I didn’t know where we were going. We parked across the street from where we were going. We found out that we were going slot car racing! The track was about 25m long and we used massive cars. It was my second highlight of the trip so far (Dreamworld was my first highlight). The cars got up 50km! A few days later we went out to lunch at our friends hotel. Our friends name was Matt. We had a great lunch with him. After Rocky we headed to Carnarvon Gorge National Park. It was really good. The day after we arrived we went on a big walk. Overall it was about 13km. We went to the Art Gallery where aboriginals had made handprints and they had also painted boomerangs, nets, goannas, emu and kangaroo tracks and a large snake that could be “The Rainbow Serpent”. We were going to go to the amphitheatre but it was closed. We headed to the Moss-Gardens. I went on ahead and accidentally took a wrong turn. Instead of going to the Moss-Gardens I went to “Hellhole Gorge”. When Mum, Dad, Rennie and Jarra got to the Gardens they got a big fright. Dad thought he knew where I had gone and he went to fetch me. By the time he found me I was quite upset. The next day we went on another two walks, this time nowhere near as long as the other. We went to Warrumbah Gorge first then Baloon Cave. Warrumbah Gorge was really good. On the way back I slipped into a puddle, so I was allowed to go barefoot. Baloon Cave was alright. Jarra and I got very dirty.