Sunday, July 27, 2008

Grampians Trip

Followed the Wildfire (rural) club in Uni for an excursion to the Grampians yesterday. Grampians is a beautiful mountain range around 200km from Melbourne. Started off at 8 a.m.

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Since this is an educational trip, the first stop is at the Ballarat Hospital pharmacy. Nothing much interesting I guess, as had countless placements already.

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Then it's a stop-over at Brambruk National Park in Halls Gap. It is an Aboriginal cultural centre, where we got to watch a video about the origin of the Grampians ranges. The tour guide also went through some traditional medicinal plants.

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Lunch is definitely the highlight. I was bracing myself for the worst (during last year's trip they got chips for lunch) but we ended up having crocodile skewers, BBQ kangaroo and buffalo sausages. Delicious and interesting.

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To digest the food, we went for a short bush-walking tour, where we saw..

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Venus falls

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Gorilla rock

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and a majestic Kookaburra.

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We then stopped at the little village of Coola to browse through some quaint shops and also enjoy delicious ice creams.

Reached back at Uni around 8 p.m. Since it was cold, Kheng Ying, Freda and me decided to go for some hot-pot. It was really hot. Really really hot (notice the red soup?).

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Overall, not a bad trip. Definitely more interesting compared to my current placement in St Vincent's Hospital. 3 weeks is too long..

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