Fie goes downunder

.. Is a lot more exciting then I thought it would be actually! Well I dont soppose all farmers go rafting and wildcaving at the weekends, haha, but still!

So a couple of weeks ago, we went wildcaving. That is when we (us wwoofers) were first introduced to Figsy, our guide during the day of caving. Let me tell you, he is absolutley barking mad.

Buchan is the nearest town to where our farm is. It's basicly a petrol station, and a hotel. But Buchan is allso famous for it's caves. Loads of caves in Buchan.

 So when we first started talking about going to see the caves, the plan was to walk uppright through the caves like every other normal humanbeing and just take some nice pictures and then have a relaxing afternoon in Buchan. But then this Figsy decided to take us through what they refer to as a wildcave, a cave where there are no lights at all, and the only way of getting through the cave is to squeeze yourself through ridiculosly small holes and crawl around like an eeedjooot for two hours. It was so much fun, but it was pretty scary.

Here are the two pictures that I at the moment can locate:



This is the beginning of the cave. Called wilsons cave by the way.
We walked up to this hole and everyone was like "Yeah ok, come on now where is the real entrance figsy?!" And he just laughed at us.




Haha, me among others looking very serious. This was one of the few times we were actually walking. We mainly crawled, using our arms to get us forward.

It had been raining for about three days straight before we went down into the cave so everything was really slippery. At one point we are sliding sideways on our bums sitting on this sort of hill type thing and Figsy says: "Whatever you do dont slide down here cause its a fifteen feet drop down there and you would probably die". Getting to know Figsy later, we understood that even though he was serious, he just likes to wind us up like that.


And last weekend we went rafting down the snowy river. Guess who was steering our boat? Figsy of course!

 Famous last words from him include:

 "Right so obviously down this rapid we are going to go backwards!" and us screaming "What? No please aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

 "When we go down this rapid you have to be really careful because as we get down we are going to slam right in to a rock on the right side. Yeah, we have lost a few people that way"  

And so on ..

But the rafting was the most fun I thought :)

We actually went down the snowy river yesterday aswell with some schoolkids, but that is a different story alltogether. Including me on the floor in the boat going down a rapid with a kid over me screaming: "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIIEEE, WHY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" haha. Nice kid. Mind you he couldnt swim so he was probably right.  

Otherwise what's new? Well it's apparently my birthday. Happy birthday to me. And we are going to sydney soon, and then I am flying to THAILAND YAY!!!!!!!!! So happy about that. Am going with Dounya :) :)

And after Thailand, I think I might just go home. I am sort of starting to miss my appartment and just having my own space. Travelling is fun, but it is going to be nice to get home soon.

Photos from the snowy river will be up shortly. Absolutley gorgeous place. Really nice day :)