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| This blog is intended for our supporters and link churches, who pray and help us to minister in Newman. As such it contains personal opinions and reflections on life and ministry in Newman. Matthew & Naomi are working with Newman Anglican Church to tell people about Jesus. Newman is an outback mining town in north west WA, Australia. SERVICE TIMES: 9am Sundays (with Sunday School) and IN2JC - 7pm Thursdays. |
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| On a lazy Monday recently... we decided to drive 2 hours to Karijini National Park, climb precarious cliffs , walk along narrow gorges, straddle crevices in rocks with rushing water underneath, eat some lunch, take some photos, then go back the way we came and drive home again! Nothing like a relaxing day off! But it was great. Our kids love the challenge and adventure of climbing down into the gorges. They are absolute bush kids now - they do it so naturally. And the gorges are so amazing and unique. We went down a gorge called Hancock Gorge. It is classified Level 5 and 6 - not for beginners. It has a part in it where the two walls come almost together, to a narrow gap. That part is called the Spider Walk. There is water rushing through it, so you have to put one leg on one side, and the other leg on the other side and 'walk' down that way. We all managed it ok. We got to Kermit's Pool down the bottom and had a nice time. Then coming back up the Spider Walk, we were confronted by a tour guide who was leading 20 or so, fit young adults through the gorge. He made a big fuss about us doing the gorge with three kids and no tour guide!! Shock horror. He went on about safety and then proceeded to get in our way while trying to make it look like we needed his help! We had to laugh. It doesn't look good for business for all these fit young people (who each paid this man $140), to see that a not-so-fit family with three little kids can do it safely without him and for free!  The 'Karijini Kids' sitting next to Kermit's Pool, feeling rather proud of themselves.Ethan and Sienna are fantastic gorge climbers! And Liam is good at sitting in a backpack!! Living in Newman, and being near the wonderful outback and its treasures, has been so wonderful. (p.s for all those who worry - we are good parents! We would never endanger our children. They were fine!) | ||
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| I can remember doing that years ago with my parents, before there were even any guides to the gorges and we all loved it.
I took my own kids a few years back and they loved it just as much. On the other hand, I have been a guide doing the same thing and I think that what you are selling to the tourists is confidence. Maybe he felt that seeing you there undervalued him: he could have handled that a LOT better. Glad you had fun. Karijini is one of my most favourite places in the world. | |||
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