Day 40

After some nutella with baguette for breakfast on Saturday morning, Beate, Joachim, her husband, Isabel, and I prepped to go on a little 2-hour hike in the nearby on Mt Coot-Tha. It was a quick half hour drive before we arrived. We headed on the trail; it was very dry, a eucalyptus type bush. The creek was completely dry since it’s the dry season here and we don’t experience much rain. So where the water fall was supposed to be, there were only rocks. Kind of a good thing though; we had to cross several areas where it looked like had it rained, it would be underwater. The trail went up and down a bit, and was a loop. Nothing too strenuous.

Afterwards, we drove up to the lookout on Mt Coot-Tha, past all the tv stations with their gated, high security compounds, helicopters, and electrical towers. The lookout had an amazing view of the city. There was even a summit restaurant there and a little gift shop. A Chinese couple who had just gotten married were getting photographed. On the way back to West End, we stopped at a German bakery and got pretzels. So as a late lunch we had German white sausage with pretzels, and sweet mustard. Very delicious!