Day 162 – Denmark and surroundings

We left relatively early this morning as we had a number of planned stops along the way, the first one being Dinosaur world!

It was incredible how real-life the dinosaurs were and with the movement, sound effects and lighting in the room it made for a very realistic experience, which in turn completely freaked Scarly out who wanted to be held and leave the hall as soon as possible. Poor girl!

Outside, we all got a turn at holding a black cockatoo Molly, who was very curious but also a bit shy. She loved exploring everyone’s arms as she was perched up, but then took a shining to Chris’ eyebrow ring and promptly had to be removed before she tried to rip it out of his head as a souvenir of her time with Chris holding her.

The white cockatoo Sydney on the other hand loved watching everything from a distance and kept shouting “hello darling” to us. So funny!

There were plenty of other birds that we got to hold and admire. What an amazing job they do here with the rescue birds…

Next the girls got to feed some kangaroos and also hold a few snakes. It was a wildlife adventure stop in every way and very fascinating for the girls!

After a little more driving we arrived at Elephant Rocks & Green Pools, a beautiful natural wonder with spectacular ocean views and rocks. It was a lovely and easy walk down and we quickly had a look at Elephant Rocks before deciding that Green Pools would be our swimming spot of choice today. I won’t lie, the water was very fresh but still enjoyable in the sun and the girls had an absolute blast splashing around.

Now that made for hungry work and we decided to stop for lunch at one of the recommended spots. It turns out it was closed on a Monday! The second spot said it was open online but turned out to be closed also when we turned up, but third time lucky it was and bonus points for an onsite playground…

Once we got to Albany we needed to tire the kids out again as Scarly and Jazzy had both had late naps in the car. So we played at the campground playground with the most incredible view I’ve ever seen from a kids’ tower. There was also the campsite jumping pillow and then went for a walk along the beach. As we got to the end of the beach there was another playground and also a fourth one on the way home. Even the girls agreed that 4 playgrounds in the space of a couple of hours was quite extreme, ha ha