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Geraldton
Thursday, August 1, 2013 | 12:30 AM



This is my first Winter break in Perth, and I was given the amazing opportunity to visit Geraldton to kickstart the inaugural Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Project. Not every day was super exciting, so I’ll just be going through some of the highlights from the trip!

Hello team! ♥

 #sightseeing

It was a 5-hour drive up North, so we took some stops along the way. One of it was visiting the Yanchep National Park, where we were supposed to see some koalas. But nope. So we took photos instead.

This kickstarted guys-vs-girls pictures for the rest of the trip.

#interaction

We visited a school to have some interaction with the aboriginal students. I'm not posting up their pictures with their faces because... I don't think it's nice to? Aboriginal culture seems to embrace respect and reticence, so here's a photo of us playing basketball and volleyball with them.

Because sports is the same everywhere.

#volunteering

A few days were spent at Bundiyarra ("good place"), helping out with preparations for the big Naidoc day celebrations!

Stamping goodie bags to be given out.

Obviously on my way to becoming a domestic goddess.

We also did some tree-planting along the chapman river and Malawar. 

Little plants for the chapman river.
And much larger ones for Malawar.

 #fun

The first Saturday was spent waking up at 6a.m. and taking a 2-hour drive further North to Kalbarri.

Just one of those pseudo-emo looking-into-the-distance photos.

Canoeing at Kalbarri. I want to return to that place!

 #work

Interview at Radio Mama! Introduced ourselves and what we were doing, as well as to promote activities for Naidoc week.

On radio, hey!

Entire day spent sizzling kangaroo sausages on Bundiyarra's big day.

 #exploring

 Sundays or free evenings were usually spent exploring. Which means plenty of camwhoring.

Whaddup. I'm up!

Act.

Original photo of the one on my profile.

We just really like taking photos wherever we go.

Yes, Geraldton does have Maccas!

 #post-trip

I wish we had more opportunities to go out to the bushes and experience something a little more outback? Geraldton was great... too great actually, we still had plenty of fastfood and drinking and shopping to indulge ourselves.

Team still tight and hanging out for dinner and bubbletea back in Perth. 

I couldn't have asked for a better team to spend 2 weeks with in Geraldton. Thank you for the amazing memories! First week of school has already started for me, and is starting soon for Ji Inn and Stella, so perhaps anticipate some back-to-school entries?

Have fun,

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