Third ride - Scenic Cableway & Close Out

The third ride was fun also but not really exhilarating. Nothing like the railway. We packed in like sardines and rode it up.. this one has a 510 meter descent.

Once at the top, we thought it would be fun to do the railway again. We got in line - at the very front! We realized it was taking much longer to come back up. Apparently the doors were not opening so they told us we could go to another ride or wait while it was fixed. We opted to wait. The people in front of us chose not to wait and they left. Now, this is when I wanted to punch someone again. There was a couple who was in line for the second row. She just takes a step down in front of us as though she is going to ride up front while her husband rides in the second row. What the heck? Not letting it damper my mood, because we were going to have to wait a whole ride anyway and I'm not sure I want to be put in jail in Australia. One of the main guys for the ride started to ask us questions about different aspects of the park and he would give the person who answered correctly some kind of prize. He asked how long the ride was and as I videotaped it I answered 1.5 minutes. I got it right haha.. I won a little Australia coin purse that I am pretty confident I will gift my beautiful daughter.

Karma always comes back around and unfortunately we stood too close to the victims. They shut the ride down for the day. It was almost 430pm, when they stop allowing rides. We went to the gift shop to look around. There was this lady at first services with her two sons and husband who was not happy that they shut the ride down. She wanted some kind of compensation and it must've been monetary because she started writing up a statement to be sent somewhere.

Erik being the master negotiator and strategic thinker he is, opted to just ask for a free bag of popcorn since it's not like we could come back another day. They asked the head honcho and he agreed. Erik was very polite about it and I think that helped out because there were a few families who were not happy and causing chaos. Erik asked in the nicest way and they obliged.

Free bag of popcorn to chomp down on ✅

We proceeded to the lookout at the top and there was this white cockatoo. We gave it a piece of popcorn and then sheepishly saw the sign that said not to feed the birds. Whoops.. We also saw another magpie.

It was basically freezing by this point and right at 5pm when the place closes, anyway. 55 degrees or 60 or whatever was chilly with the very cold breeze that came in brutally. We sat at the bus stop and waited a good 10 minutes waiting to head back to Sydney.Read more