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Made it to Brisbane, will do details after sleeping and eating, fear the person who gets in the way of my stated goals. Should probably save it till I get home - can do the hand flapping thing convincingly then. Got trapped in a shopping centre, found postcards for work and grandmother and was strangely attracted to electric fuchsia and elephants - I blame the sleep deprivation and the way the walls kept moving.
Oh and my S-Puppy is kinda.. huge and licky. I miss Kenobi, I hope he is getting lots of cuddles.
Cairns
Cairns was interesting, bit of a tourist destination - no surprises there. It has the most didgeridoo shops I have ever seen in close proximity. It also has a magnificent collection of preserved fake Australian insects.
An amusing point, it's sited on a mud flat and doesn't exactly have a gleaming white beach to lounge around on smelling of coconut oil (always smells like the 80's to me). What it does have is the 'Lagoon', a very large swimming pool with little sand pits for the kids to build castles in. It was closed for two hours while I was there due to an 'unidentified object' having been seen in the pool. I choose to believe it was a man-eating Pliocene clam.
It also has fruitbats.. or possibly giant dove eating bats considering the noises coming from the palm trees after dark.
Diving
The diving was fun, varied and rather wet - I had the amusing experience of being a minority on the boat what with it being mostly travellers out to do some diving on the Great Barrier Reef.
Basically we did a lot of diving, we sailed all night and got chucked overboard 3-4 times a day to look at coral, fish, fish, sharks, coral, turtles, fish and coral.
I got all excited and did the Advanced PADI course - very glad I did because I was allowed to go deeper and some really big soft corals grow down there.
High points included seeing Lion Fish, a carnivorous mini-disco, giant turtles, a shark feed (lots of thrashing about) and Homo Sapiens in a most unnatural environment.
Have met many many many of Nemo's relatives but have terrible news to deliver.. Marlin is a male impersonator!
Am going to Fraser Island with Father, S-Mother and S-Brother - Woo Woo!
Oh and my S-Puppy is kinda.. huge and licky. I miss Kenobi, I hope he is getting lots of cuddles.
Cairns
Cairns was interesting, bit of a tourist destination - no surprises there. It has the most didgeridoo shops I have ever seen in close proximity. It also has a magnificent collection of preserved fake Australian insects.
An amusing point, it's sited on a mud flat and doesn't exactly have a gleaming white beach to lounge around on smelling of coconut oil (always smells like the 80's to me). What it does have is the 'Lagoon', a very large swimming pool with little sand pits for the kids to build castles in. It was closed for two hours while I was there due to an 'unidentified object' having been seen in the pool. I choose to believe it was a man-eating Pliocene clam.
It also has fruitbats.. or possibly giant dove eating bats considering the noises coming from the palm trees after dark.
Diving
The diving was fun, varied and rather wet - I had the amusing experience of being a minority on the boat what with it being mostly travellers out to do some diving on the Great Barrier Reef.
Basically we did a lot of diving, we sailed all night and got chucked overboard 3-4 times a day to look at coral, fish, fish, sharks, coral, turtles, fish and coral.
I got all excited and did the Advanced PADI course - very glad I did because I was allowed to go deeper and some really big soft corals grow down there.
High points included seeing Lion Fish, a carnivorous mini-disco, giant turtles, a shark feed (lots of thrashing about) and Homo Sapiens in a most unnatural environment.
Have met many many many of Nemo's relatives but have terrible news to deliver.. Marlin is a male impersonator!
Am going to Fraser Island with Father, S-Mother and S-Brother - Woo Woo!
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Can't speak for puppy, but I saw housemate on Sunday and gave him lots of cuddles.
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Am cuddle deprived, will go into withdrawal shortly and be found curled foetally whimpering 'The Hands! The Horror!"
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Oh, and did you nick a bit of coral for me?no subject
Yups, am doing the family thingy now, fatherous one took some leave and has been landscaping in the back yard - being a member of my illustrious family this means he has hired a miniature bobcat. Never let it be said that a Bobrowicz knowingly under-engineered anything.
Well. No. But I could make you up a saline solution and get you some algae - it's so much fun to make your own!