my trip to Exmouth

I thought I would post some photos up from my trip up to Exmouth the day after Christmas. Exmouth is about a 17-hour drive north from Perth and it's known for it's warm weather and nice spots for snorkling. On the way up, me and the three of my friends who I went with, decided to stop in a national park called Karijini. It's known for it's goregous(ha!) gorges and natural pools that formed in the bottom of them. We actually hiked down into the bottom of them and swam in a little oasis. It was incredible, one of those times during your life when you questioin whether what you are experiencing is real or not. The photo of the beach is where we went snorkling, it's called Turquiose Bay and again, absolutely beautiful. I didn't want to get out of the water, so many fish and beautiful coral, I even spotted a couple sea turtles and swam after them.

Monday evening I went with a couple of my friends who I went up north with, Simon and Sian, to a Christian camp that was for college students. There's an organization at the universities here called the Christian Union and it's sort of like a christian outreach on the different uni's around Perth. I really enjoyed the speaker Monday night and was excited to learn about another opportunity to reach non-christian students in Perth. Tuesday was my day off, so I spent the day with my friend Sian again and we ventured down to the beach. We, unknowingly, fell asleep on the beach and woke up a little red. Bad move on our part. Me and some of the girls from church had our weekly Bible study last night, we're doing it on a book called "A Beautiful Offering", it's great, I strongly recommend it.

Something that has been really confronting for me the last couple of days is the idea of having a real hunger and thrist for God. If you think about it, when you're hungry or thristy, you immediately go for something to eat or drink. In the same way, when we are feeling low spiritually, we should go to God for him to quinch our hunger. But so often we turn to other things, things that leave us feeling more empty afterwards. Going straight to the source, God, will fulfill our needs every time. The more and more we go to him, the more and more we fall in love with him. It seems so easy, right?