2nd Climb in Morialta Park

Ivy and I had a day off yesterday (finally!!!) We were planning to go to the gym or something, you know, to wake up early and make full use of our day off by being productive. we planned to wake up at 9 for brekky and then plan our day.... the main word here being PLANNED. We planned. So naturally, we didn't wake up as originally PLANNED. We woke up much much later... I'm not gonna say how much later as my mom will probably be reading this.. but i can justify myself by saying that I had had a late night finishing up my homework... XD

Well, we decided to go to Morialta Park again..
The last time we were there was last year, April/May. There are 3 waterfalls in Morialta Park, and it takes a few hours of climbing uphill and downhill to get there. Last time we were there, we only managed to get to the 2nd falls. This time we decided, we HAVE to get to the 3rd one cause we live right next to the park ( I meant that literally, its right across the road, i can see it as soon as i step out of my room) and we'd then be able to tell people that we HAVE climbed to the 3rd falls..
So we went.
We were just starting, and we saw this long stretch of road, we nearly turned back home, we were so lazy.. but we persevered haha..


The view there is gorgeous. We can see the city. At this point, we weren't even at the First Falls yet, mind you.
Well, you can imagine our relief when we saw this sign. We'd been wandering pretty aimlessly up and up and up and we had this nagging fear that we might end up lost in the vast park, cause its pretty wild in there... Thank goodness, we saw this sign and figured we should be on the right track..

Turns out we missed the First Falls entirely.. I dont know how that happened...
But we ended up in the Second Falls instead....
As you can see from this pic, Second Falls is rather disappointing.. Not so much a waterfall as it is a stream of water trickling over a couple of rocks....

We kept seeing these super scary trees around. They look like some sorta 'pontianaks' from those Malay Movies... Ivy nearly walked straight into one of 'em and she screamed bloody murder, nearly made me jump right outta my skin and into the Second Falls.


Ivy's phone rang on our way to the Third Falls and we were like, "Mmmm, good connection here..."
And then of course, I got a little bored..... started taking self-potraits....

So we saw this sign that says 'Third Falls- 390metres"

Now we had no idea at all just how far 390metres was. So we walked a little bit till we saw this. We were rather disappointed, we expected Third Falls to look more like a waterfall.... but we took pictures anyway, and continued on...
Disappointment....
Then we saw this. And we thought, hey maybe THIS is the Third Falls... still rather disappointing but we took pics anyway, just in case this WAS the Third Falls....

We were still walking when suddenly, we saw what looked like a waterfall up the track....

We were so excited we'd finally managed to get to the Third Falls!!!!!!

And VOILA!!!!

Third Falls!!!! In all its glory... We decided this HAD to be the Third Falls after so many false alarms... I mean, look at it, could it look less like a waterfall???

And just to prove I really was there and didnt just upload some random picture from the Internet.......
We only stayed about 5 minutes up there... then we made our way down again... Seriously, what can you do at a waterfall??? If this were Malaysia we'd jump in for a swim or something but this is Australia and its winter and we were quite high up... so you can imagine we were rather anxious to get back down to warmer temperatures..

Oh well, at least now we can tell people that we've been to the Third Falls. Haha.