Hiking to Cala Goloritze

Overlooking the Su Gorroppu Gorge 

After a LONG hike, finally, Cala Goloritze

Mega waves

Stunning rock formations

Well so much for plans!! We were supposed to be going on a boat tour today to all the little beaches on the Orosei Gulf, but it got cancelled because of "strong winds"! Oh well, we will go on Friday!! Instead of going on a nice, calm, soothing, peaceful bout tour we ended up going on a treacherous, uphill, deadly hike!! And by that I mean a veryyyyyyyy hard but STUNNING hike through the gorge to the beach. We drove the rental car for an hour and a half to get there!! 

The hike started uphill on this huge slope of rocks - not even a path!! This was only one-tenth of the hike...the rest was allllll downnn hilllll. Down, down, down, steep, steep, steep. The whole time I was just walking on harsh, downhill, loose shale. One wrong step and you would break your ankle!! The most dramatic devastating blow!! I ended up walking the whole hour hike by myself because Tobin and dad were booking it (who knows why?!!??!) and Nana Mary was slow (well fast for her age) so mum was back with her. I was in the middle of the pack and doubtful Nana Mary was going to make at all!! All throughout the hike I passed weird rocks and caves that looked like they were from dinosaur time. At the end of the hike I came out on a beautiful, secret tiny beach cove!! And let me to you the waves here were GINORMOUS, like mini tsunamis!!! For me, this is the best thing ever!! I LOVE BIG WAVES!!!!!!! 

When I got to the beach, dad and Tobin were already there and mum and nana Mary showed up an hour later!! But anyways...in the water I would stand before the waves and wait for the giant tsunami to come over my head and bring me into the water!!! I would stand in front of the wave and then get choke SLAMMED by it!!! I swear I flashed everyone on the beach at least once!!!!!!!! Hahahaha of course!! The waves were that crazy and deadly!! It would be all calm and then BANG the wave would come and slam my body to the ground like a wrecking ball and I would get swept away!! I would be just standing in the water and then the HUGE wave would come and I would practically be drowning-but it was fun drowning!!!! I find it soooo FUN, like an amusement ride!! Whenever a wave came I would just scream "SWIM 4 YOUR LIVES"!!!! And listen to this, you're going to be really proud, I didn't wear my goggles the entire time!!!!!! Well it was because I was terrified they would fall off and I would lose them. It wouldn't be the first time :(((. 

When Nana Mary finally showed up she wanted to go swimming in the water too!!! I tried to warn her this was a bad idea because of the harsh wave conditions but she insisted on going in!! It was all fine and dandy when we swam out further where the waves weren't that big, but when we tried to swim back in, that's a whole other story!! I told her we needed to bolt back to shore before a wave came and that's exactly what I did! As for Nana Mary, she didn't really listen!! She was just walking back to shore, taking her time, when the biggest wave I had seen all day started coming towards shore!! I could see it starting to come over her head so I shouted "RUN!!". But she was too slow. The wave pile-drived into her, sending her into an under water hurricane!! Dad had to run into the water and save her life!! Don't worry though, she ended up being ok!! But I swear if someone got it on video and added the song "wrecking ball" into it, they would be youtube famous!!! Ahahahahhahaha!!!!! Sorry Nana Mary!!!! 

On the hike back I practically died. The rocks would slip under my feet every two seconds and it was so hot and so insanely steep. I was also dying of exhaustion. Every time I turned a corner I thought the hike was over but it just kept going on and on. FINALLY, after what seemed like 7 hours I made it back home, so relived the hike was over and I actually made it home. ALSO I am super proud of Nana Mary!!!! She was the oldest person by far there and she made it though the whole hike!! Yahoo!!!!!!!! Overall it was a very hard, tiring hike but definitely worth it!!!! 

The drive home was so gorgeous along the hillside. We drive past so many farm animals and huge canyons and mountains. The sun was starting to set too so that made it extra amazing!!!! At home we ordered takeaway pizza for dinner, we were soooooo exhausted. But a day isn't complete without a gelato!! So before bed we headed out to the gelataria to get our daily dose of deliciousness. I got white chocolate flavoured...yummmyyyy. Soon after we all went into a deep sleep, BEAT from the hike today. All our energy was spent$$$!!! 

Don't forget to creep it real-mimirockzzz KING JULIAN;)))!!!!