Day 8

Yesterday was incredible. The plan was to go into town with Matt and Ryan but it wasn't meant to be. We were going to catch the 12:30 bus there, and catch the last bus home at 5:40. We didn't leave very much time to get to the bus stop and thought we might have missed the bus. When we checked the schedule posted at the bus stop it said the bus left at 1:00, not wanting to hang out at the bus stop for half an hour we decided to go into town for a little while. We got about half a block down the road when the bus passed us, we tried to turn around but didn't make it in time. Plan B was to head up to the point to kill time befor the 2:10 bus. We biked up to the point and it was beautiful. I could go into detail but I think pictures would be way more effective; after all, a pictures worth a thousand words. 

Incredible views

The other side of the point

The last little bit of land you see is the Easternmost point of Australia

A shot of Lennox and the beaches from the point

If you aren't able to tell by the pictures I have posted so far the bike ride to the top of the point is not exactly leisurely, needless to say we were all excited to make the journey down hill this time. As we passed through town and the ice cream shop we could think of no better way to celebrate our making it to the point and back. As we sat at a table, eating our ice cream, our 2:10 bus passed us by. We all had a good laugh and went back to enjoying our ice cream.

By this time it was getting pretty hot and we decided to head back to camp and meet up with Rock and a few others to go snorkeling. We had been told the area by the boardwalk was a really good place to find stuff so we headed that direction. Once we eventually found the spot we realized how incredible of a location we were really in. Within minutes of getting into the water we were seeing schools of fish and stingrays. It was incredible how much marine life we were seeing in such shallow water. At the deepest point we couldn't have been any deeper than our waist.

As if our day could not get any better, on our way back we found a nudibranch. More specifically a Glaucous Atlanticus, and extremely bright blue and white sea slug. From what I have heard they are pretty rare to find. The following is not my picture but one Matt took.

Glaucous Atlanticus

P.S. Mom and Dad this is the same thing we found on Google images, I was expecting something bigger but this is as big as the little guy gets.