2022
Welcome back to part 2 of my adventures in Western Australia! 🤗
The best things I did the last days of my stay were swimming with sealions and skydiving (+ visiting Rottnest Island).
Regarding the sealions I had a wonderful time swimming with them. Once the boat had dropped anchor they started swimming around the boat and jumped out of the water like dolphins as if they were saying "come on in humans and play with us". We did so very quickly and had an amazing experience. The sealions came very close to us and were very playful and cute. Have a look 🙂
The second awesome experience I did was skydiving. I had never skydived before and was a little bit nervous. I mean no fast beating heart or anything like this, it was just thoughts like "what if something goes wrong" etc.
On the day of the jump we had to get up early to catch our ferry to Rottnest Island. Anyone knows this island or has ever heard about it? Rottnest Island is kind of famous for its quokkas. A couple of years ago a guy made a selfie with them that went viral and since then people are crazy about the island that's a 30 minutes ferry ride from Perth.
But back to skydiving first. We went to the skydiving company and were instructed. Our instructors were very nice and experienced and very quickly we found ourselves about to go up to 15,000 feet.
When in the plane I was thinking "why do something crazy like this, are you completely mad"? haha
The view from up there was amazing, it was a sunny day with almost no clouds.
And then we jumped, 60 seconds free fall followed by 5 minutes of paragliding. It was the best thing I've ever done and can't wait to to it again. I was thinking that maybe I'll jump when at Connect Live in San Francisco but I read that its not allowed in the city. You have to do a 2 hours drive to the skydive company. But I'll see!
And now I present you: QUOKKAS! Mini kangaroos that live on Rottnest Island. They are so cute and definitely not shy! The have no natural predator which is why they are living a relaxed life, hanging out, eating, sleeping and being animal stars because so many tourists want photos with them. We also saw some baby quokkas that were even cuter!
I was glad I was on Rottnest Island in the Australian winter, I can't imagine how busy it must be during summertime.
Look at these cute animals:
That's all! I had such an amazing vacation! Next Monday I'll start my 8 week long internship before I'm back at uni. I'm so looking forward to Connect Live 😍 Hope to see some of you there!
Best,
Maria
