Wallaby spotting

This morning we drove out to a beautiful gorge.  It was off a rough track that isn't on the map, we got told that it was there by other travellers travelling in the opposite direction to us.  When we arrived, we followed a walking track down into the dry creek bed of the magnificent gorge.  As we scanned the red cliff faces we noticed a few furry friends starring down at us.  Up among the rocks were some cute little Black Footed Rock Wallaby.  The wallabies were very tiny, grey creatures with black feet and a long grey tail with a black bushy end.  They stared at us as we walked along the gorge and some of them hopped away as we came quite close.  The floor underneath us was lots of stones, rocks and bushes.  

After we drove back out on to the main road, we drove to a beautiful spot called Turquoise Bay.  When we arrived we got our snorkelling gear out of the car and headed for the beach.  We set up out towels on the sand and walked to the water to get on our snorkelling gear.  We started off against the current admiring the colourful valleys beneath us.  We saw very large coral and fish all around us, then we got cold and came back in.  When we got back some people were standing around and pointing out a… WHALE!  Dad, Kade and mum could see it and said it was blowing through its blowhole and jumping around but by the time I got there it had moved far into the distance:(  Dad and I went back into the water for another snorkel and saw a Long Tom (which was the peculiar fish mum and I had seen in Coral Bay) and hundreds and hundreds of short skinny Garfish swimming around us.  As we were swimming over a particularly high section of coral, I saw a dull purple stick thing poking out of the coral and AARRGGHH.  I saw a humungous lobster thingy almost the size of Kade!  I quickly swam away as fast as I could and then told dad.  I stayed back while he went and checked it out, he came back saying he had never seen anything that big.  We swam back into shore and told mum and Kade what we had seen and they had seen a ray burying itself in the sand.  Then we got dry and went back home to sit up on the hill at 5:00pm with the other campers.