During my time visiting my friend in Australia, we did a 3 day road trip from Melbourne up to the border of Victoria and New South Wales, to a small town called Mildura. So small town in fact, that it had not even registered on our GPS. Because of this, we really struggled to find our motel, we were not even sure which state it was in! Turns out it was in New South Wales, right next to the Murray River! Once we got to the motel, we were greeted in our room by a delightful lizzard and a frog! Being the girls that we are, we got the manager to come and remove them :)
The next morning we were not too sure what to do with our day and so headed down to the tourist information centre who gave us a brochure about a small town nearby called Wentworth. Whilst paging through the brochure, I spotted a picture of some beautiful sand hills so I asked about them and the assistant said they were only about 10 minutes drive out of the town, literally in the middle of no where. We decided to head down there and well, WOW!!!
Literally in the middle of a wide open field are these huge high sand dunes, made of amazing orange sand. We quickly parked and headed off to climb them. I had to try and climb the sand dunes with summer shoes on (a bit of a challenge) because of the snake risk in Australia. There were random (very random!!) watermelons growing in the sand at some parts. The views from the top of the sand dunes were just breathtaking and climbing these dunes and looking out from the top was definately one of those ''Aaaah, I cannot believe I'm actually experiencing this'' travel moments.
The next morning we were not too sure what to do with our day and so headed down to the tourist information centre who gave us a brochure about a small town nearby called Wentworth. Whilst paging through the brochure, I spotted a picture of some beautiful sand hills so I asked about them and the assistant said they were only about 10 minutes drive out of the town, literally in the middle of no where. We decided to head down there and well, WOW!!!
Literally in the middle of a wide open field are these huge high sand dunes, made of amazing orange sand. We quickly parked and headed off to climb them. I had to try and climb the sand dunes with summer shoes on (a bit of a challenge) because of the snake risk in Australia. There were random (very random!!) watermelons growing in the sand at some parts. The views from the top of the sand dunes were just breathtaking and climbing these dunes and looking out from the top was definately one of those ''Aaaah, I cannot believe I'm actually experiencing this'' travel moments.
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