Ok last bit on Broken Hill/Outback trip! The last few days included a trip to Mungo National Park, as well as a "surprise activity." We left Broken Hill bright and early to head down to the Wentworth area for a visit to Mungo National Park. The park consists of several dried up lakes in the Outback of New South Wales. It was a meeting place for ancient Aboriginal people.
We were guided by a ranger at the park whose ancestors were Aborigines. He walked us around and showed us the main part of the park, a huge dune known as the Walls of China. He also showed us skeletons of wombats that had been there according to evolution, for thousands of years.
We also learned that in the late 60s and mid 70s, full skeletons had been found in Mungo, skeletons of a man and a woman known appropriately as Mungo Man and Mungo Woman. After looking through the Visitor's Center, we left Wentworth to head to Mildura for a night's stay before we headed back to Melbourne. We went out for pizza and drinks for a final hurrah before the end of the trip. It was great times!
The next morning, we headed to a surprise activity. Now, I was going to type about it, because it was a lot of fun, but it just hit me that I was specificially told by our tutor Rob not to tell anyone. They don't want anyone back at Loyola who's coming to Australia next semester to know, so I'll keep it secret, I guess. It was nice though, and I won something out of it :-)
All in all, the Broken Hill/Outback trip was fun. It was great to bond with the Loyola group and some of my classmates, and of course, cool to visit different landmarks in the Outback! Definitely a great experience. Check out a few more pics below!
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| The Walls of China |
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| Good job Loyola...IT WASN'T ME!!!! |
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| A look out point of Mungo |
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| Memorial to Leslie James Taylor, a guide who suffered a heart attack on the job |
PEACE.
