Sunday morning enjoying the beach, our last day  in Merimbula. After we packed and headed to the airport to fly to Sydney. We were met by my cousin at his apartment that he was lending to us. The day after we went to the train station to take a train to Hardy’s bay where we met my other uncle and his wife. He took us to their house where we got to feed the kookaburras and the lorikeets. There are funnel web spiders that have enough venom to kill a human.

   

   

  

The Wednesday heat wave continued to Thursday. It was still 38 degrees outside so we drove for an hour and a half to the blue pool made by the ocean. The blue pool is a giant tide pool that was formed by the tide and is now open to public. It also has fish and other cool sea animals in it. It was improved by people in the 1940’s. As the tide was coming there were bigger waves that we got hit by. This photo is before I got dumped on.  In the evening our uncle and aunt called us up onto the balcony to look at the Southern Cross. The Aboriginal and sailors used it like a compass to find there way home.
  

On Wednesday we had a 38 degrees heat wave in Merimbula. So we spent all day at the beach swimming in the nice water. We felt like fried fish at the end of the day.

In the morning we drove to the river about 10 minutes away from the beach house. When we got there, the tide was going in so we took our boards and floated down the river into the lake. We did that about 5 times before we went looking under rocks for fish and crabs. We went to these tide pools where we saw blue bottle jellyfish that stung multiple times. At the pools there were dead fish that we fed to the creatures in the water.  One animal took it right out of our hands and was chewing it so hard. The animal was a sea anemone. After that the tide was going out so we rode the river down stream for ever because it was so fun and cool to see all the fish. 

   

 This evening my uncle’s friends took Cole and I for a ride on their golf cart on the golf course where we saw a black cockatoo and wood ducks. After we went to the golf club where we had diner.

  

In the morning we went for a nature walk through a Tea Tree forest where there were so many St Andrew spiders making huge webs for catching flies and moths. Some of my favourite animals I saw were Ghekos and salamanders in the grass. The walk was one km each direction. After our walk we went to the ocean to cool off. See if you can spot the spider.

   

On Saturday morning we had to wake up at four in the morning to pack and catch a taxi to the airport. Our plane left at 7:00 in the morning. Our taxi driver dropped us off in the wrong section of the airport so we had to walk to the other section. We took a very small plane to Merimbula. The airport was even smaller! My uncle drove 8 hours the day before we left to carry all of our bags and to get the 3 storey beach house ready.

  
When we arrived in Merimbula my uncle was waiting for us to land with some of his friends. We drove to the beach house and unpacked everything.  We went to the beach for walk. My uncle’s friends and their dogs joined us for our walk. We saw a pod of dolphins. They were diving into the waves.

We went for a walk along a boardwalk. We saw lots of soldier crabs eating dead sea snails. They were amazing.

We went to my uncle’s friend’s house for dinner and saw a Huntsman spider on the wall. They are good to keep because they eat all the bugs.

   
 

Getting ready to leave Melbourne for Merimbula. While in Melbourne I was swimming in a pool and there was a crack in the wall and I saw a red back spider related to the black widow. We caught it but it drowned and died. 

We took a train to the Old Melbourne Gaol to see the tales of the prisoners. One of the most famous gangsters is Ned Kelly and his group.  He always wore a tin suit of armour.  

I loved Melbourne so much but it was sad to leave my cousins and Molly and Sam, their dogs.

 
   

We drove 10 minutes to get to Flinder’s beach. We went swimming and saw a stingray and a Flounder fish in the sand. The tide was out so we went crabbing. The best place to find crabs is under rocks and rock pools. The water was really cold so we wore wetsuits. It was a nice day. 

  

When the tide is out it is a perfect time to go paddle boarding by the beach house.

  

Getting ready for another plane ride to Melbourne. At the lounge chilling, eating cookies and grilled cheese. Meeting my cousins in Melbourne.