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| photo by: rkimpeljr |
Have you ever been pushed down a hill in a giant hamster ball? No?
Have you ever wanted to? Don't lie, yes you have.
Then I would like you introduce you to the most childishly awesome extreme sport in the world: Zorbing.
Zorbing is what you get when you ask a room full of 8 year old boys to design a sport for you. You get driven up to the top of a steep hill with a bumpy 'track' carved into it, strapped into a giant inflatable ball, and given a rather sturdy kick by the operator. While there are a handful of companies in Australia who do this, there's only one who operate in Victoria - and wouldn't you know, they just so happened to be on our way back home!
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
We left the Old Mount Gambier Gaol early in the morning. After briefly getting lost when our GPS tried to re-route us through Turkmenistan, we drove up to Blue Lake and Valley Lake- Mount Gambier's main must-see tourist attractions. And sure enough, one was blue, the other was in a valley. And they were both... lake-ish? Is that a word?
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| Don't get me wrong, it's pretty... |
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| ...but it's a lake we weren't allowed to swim in... |
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| ...once you've taken a picture, what else can you do? |
After taking plenty of pictures of the Blue and Valley Lakes, we rejoined the road out of town. Before we'd gotten very far, however, we saw a sign pointing us toward the Mount Gambier Sink Hole. This, we decided, sounded awesomely depressing. Depressing! Geddit? A little bit of geography humour for you.
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| ...yeah, geographers aren't very funny. - photo by TechStud |
Having never been into a sinkhole before, I wasn't really sure what to expect. Whatever I was expecting though, it wasn't this - in the bottom of a 15m hole, we found a miniature garden, complete with manicured flower beds, grassy terraces and park benches. This - combined with a wall of falling vines that looked like a grassy waterfall - gave the sinkhole a remarkably Wonderland-esque quality. So, naturally, it was time for us to pull out our funky new camera and let loose in a flurry of photography.
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| How tall is the grassy waterfall? |
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| ...several Alexes tall, at least |
Finally, we got back into the car and drove onto the highway taking us back to our regular lives. Back, that is, after one last stop to get pushed down a hill in a giant hamster ball!
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| photo by robertpaulyoung |
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| photo by David Axman |
Sadly, however, we weren't able to take any photos of our own zorbing experience. The operator wouldn't let us take our camera in the ball with us - and I'm sure you can understand why. I can only imagine what it would sound like to take a camera zorbing:
Wheeeeeeeeeeee*thud*thud*thud*Ow!*eeeeeeeeeee*thud*Oww!!*eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
And it would be awesome.
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