For our IES orientation, we were hauled on a bus to the town of Anglesea just off the Great Ocean Road, about an hour and a half drive from Melbourne. We stayed in a boyscout camp for three days (it reminded me SO much of Passages - freshman orientation at UPS) in the heart of the bush. Our first night we saw three wallabies and two kangaroos! This is looking straight down the camp driveway toward the water.









One of our "extreme" activities was an "extreme" mountain biking excursion through the bush along the Great Ocean Road to Bell's Beach, famous for it's annual surf competition.









After mountain biking (and I mean almost immediately after mountain biking...as in an hour after) we went surf kayaking, which is pretty much the most fun you can have in a bathing suit. It happens to be exactly what it sounds like: surfing in a sea kayak.















Our final "extreme" activity was surfing at the main beach in Anglesea. They wouldn't let us bring our bags with us onto the beach so I don't have any epic pictures of the process, but these are our wetsuits. Yes, I wore a wetsuit. Twice.