moff's history tour 1

the history tour was quite interesting with moff taking us around and showing us impressive and sometimes scary information. we first started off by going to a rundown house which used to hold armed settlers who protected themselves by barricading themselves from Aboriginals in a stone house with two windows.

after the house we travelled along the highway stopping off at the side to look at some native trees such as the river gum tree and the eucalyptus tree. a while went past and we came across a large area of land with was covered with eroded limestone which contains calcium caltrate which erodes acid. we found many cave entrances which were blocked up by rocks and sticks. what really scared me were the remains of animal bones in a hole which used to be an aboriginal well for water. what also scared me was moff's story about one of the students many years ago picking up a leg bone which scared me more when i thought we found it under a rock.

we hopped back on the bus and went to stenhouse bay where moff told us the story about the old mines which use to mine there and all the aboriginal stories of the land and how there is a very rare bird and a picture of it can be worth 600 dollars or something like that.
while leaving stenhouse bay we saw some emu's in a group of three. Jake decided to lure them towards him by getting on his back and waving his legs and showing his testicles at them.


as this ended we drove onward to the site of the Ethel and the ferret which were both ships washed up on the same beach. the ferret was high jacked by two Americans and turned into a pirate ship. it was caught in England when it was recognised by a sailor and transported back to Australia where it crashed and stranded.