October 12, 2002 Grampions National Park, Australia
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Today was off to a disturbing start with news that a drowned woman had washed up on the beach in front of our cabin. The police were still there when we left.
During the morning we saw some more spectacular coast, including the Bay of Martyrs and Bay of Islands. Even though it was beautiful, we were all ready to head inland to the Grampions. Here we did a two hour hike through some funky rock formations up to the Pinnacle for some spectacular views of the forested valley below and the mountains across the way.
En route to the park I saw my first kangaroo, a dead wallaby in the road. However, later on we saw plenty of live ones lurking about the road. That evening there was a whole herd of them grazing in some people's back yards, so we took lots of pictures. They let us get pretty close before hopping away.