After such a long discussion and visit to the Swan Hill information centre, we decided to go to Nyah State Forest, Murray Sunset National Park- Pink lakes.
1. Nyah State Forest
It is just 15 min North from Swan Hill town centre. The state forest represents a good example forest of the Murray River. The river gum trees lined along the river as great habitat for kangaroo, and other wild animals. We saw a big group of kangaroos hooping around in the forest. The kangaroos were really cute and agile, especially with baby kangaroos. We managed to climb up to 5 trees in the forest PLUS we took heaps of photos on the river bank.
2. Murray Sunset National park- Pink lakes
National park = 4 WD. Fortunately, this national park was with 2WD accessibility track to the pink lakes, the main attraction in the national parks in the shire of Mildura rural city. Along the journey, one of the roads was so greenish with rice estates!! The scenery along with the sapphire blue sky was really great. Conversely, the other side of the road was just bald… the first sight into the lakes, it’s really pinkish!!! The lake floor was so pinkish with the condensation of the salt crystal. It’s not surprising that the water level was so low, and we could just walk on the water…like those in the movie, walking on the lake!! And we left the national park under the colourful rainbow. The sunset on the way back was marvelous and coloured the world into golden.
Is it pinkish?!?
1/9 Mon
First Aid course for 3 hours + Rural ambulance presentation.
2/9 Tue
GP visit in Swan Hill. I was with nurses for the morning, and I did some practical stuff, like cutting the suture, injection, ECG, skin biopsy, ear examination..etc. The best experience was assisting in the biopsy of lipoma, a benign neoplasm of adipose tissues. And I just realized that how big the lipoma could be!! The interview with a patient was really lengthy and interesting. A patient could really get all the diseases in the body!!! Myeloma, Atrial Fibrillation, Osteoporosis, bowel cancer..etc etc……
3/9 Wed
Life story project..presentation and afternoon tea with the old folks. I bought a colourful recipe for the lady I interviewed, if she had no chance to bake, at least she could enjoy looking at the pictures of the yummy food!!
4/9 Thu
A long day with all the presentations: GP, OHS, Panel discussion, Veterinary...and the day was ended with a visit to a dairy farm! The dairy was really big with almost fully automated milk production. The while rotary was so big and could fit 92 cows at the same time!! the cows were really trained to be multi-tasking!! The cows were eating, while the milk was sucked by the pump, and they poo and urinated at the same time!! amazing! :P
5/9 Fri
It’s the final day of the 2 weeks rural placement in Swan Hill, we eventually decided to have a trip up to Macedon ranges for the Hanging Rocks.. we stopped by Bendigo for lunch and when we reached the Hanging Rocks park, unfortunately it’s closed.. then we made our way up to Mt Macedon for the sunset..again!! it’s so magnificent to be immersed into the golden brown world.
Sunset (MT Macedon)
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i like the sunset at mt macedon pic!! too bad i was there in the morning where there was mist...MIST...cant really see anything =.=
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