Royal National Park

Last Tuesday my friend May, her daughter, my son and I went to the Royal National Park. We took the free bus from Rockdale Migrant Resource Centre to get there.

The Royal National Park is large and is the second largest national park in the world. We were walking on the coast and viewing the magnificent views including beautiful beaches, rainforests and open woodlands.

On the day we went to Burning Palms, it took nearly one hour to get there. It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Australia. The kids were very excited playing on the beach. They were laughing, chasing each other and building sand castles. I took lots of photos there. And we also saw two teenagers surfing in the high waves. Bravo!

Later Max, an Aboriginal person did the welcome ceremony for us. He told us about some Aboriginal history and culture as well. Then he took us bush walking... We didn't follow him because the kids didn't want to leave the beach. So May and I had sat down on a rock and talked for a hour. We were so happy and relaxed! She told me how stupid I was not bringing water. That reminded me of the time when we were climbing a mountain in China, (and we forgot to bring water). We have to drink water in a dirty pond and then we kept running to the toilet. But there was no any toilet around the mountain. We were so embarrass to look for a toilet.

After two hours we moved to a park to have lunch and watched the Australian animals chatter and play.

We were on the way home after 3 o'clock and the all kids were asleep on the bus. It was a very tiring day, but interesting!