http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/irishfoll25/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from irishfoll25 en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:37:33 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:37:33 +0000 Well its been a while since wersquove written so here it goes.A few months ago my friend Hugo and I decided to have an adventurous day and climb some waterfalls near the house at Jurrama. We got there early brought all the climbing gear and headed up the falls. These falls are really neat because they have lots of huge tiers that you have to climb up. After a few failed attempts to get above http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-374146.html Well its been a while but I have a day off donrsquot feel like doing homework so I can type for a bit. Classes started a few months ago and im taking a rainforest populationscommunity class intro to GIS and doing my literature review for my project next semester. It seems like the same as last semester tons of work. Before classes started Crystal and I had a marine animal behaviour block http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-333374.html Hi EveryoneSo I guess I should start helping out more with the blog. Scott has been doing too much of the work and really it isnrsquot fair so here we go. Well after an exciting season of volleyball The Flogging Mollies thatrsquos us ended up taking second place in the league As a team that made it into the finals by default for another team that couldnrsquot make it because we ende http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-303046.html So since beer prices are so high the great alternative that we came up with is brewing beer at home ha and some of you were thinking we would stop drinking. Well our first batch was a simple lager and it came out really good surprisingly. The next beer that we brewed was closer to a hoppy red and now that it has matured a little longer it tastes pretty good. Fermenting right is our first hef http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-281351.html 54 Regatta crs Douglas 4814 QLD Australia. So I thought I would give out our address while I remember if anyone feels like sending cookies or recess peanut butter cups we would love you.For Easter break we headed down to the whit Sunday islands with two other students. We rented a car and I got the lucky job of driving the three hours down there. So steering wheel on the opposite side and d http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-265026.html Everything is still going beautifully here in Australia. School has barely just begun and we donrsquot have jobs yet. As a result there is a lot of free time to explore our surroundings and relax. We went on a trip to a place called Crystal Creek with a group of students. It was about a 40minute drive north of us and it was absolutely gorgeous. This was where you actually start making your http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-257308.html 23rdWe went over to the strand the other day which is a long section of park along the beach. They have a kids area thatrsquos a small water park. Giant squirt guns and things spraying water all over the place crystal ran through it and got soaked. The beach is beautiful but you can only go in the water at a few location that have stinger nets. The water is really warm almost to warm but s http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-250991.html Ok so we made it to Australia We had some small problems along the way like being dropped off at the wrong terminal having only one person giving out boarding passes in Fiji so it took forever and somehow crystal got all the way to Brisbane without anyone saying anything about the 100lb bag that she packed. But once there they wouldnrsquot take it on the plane so we had to take out all the h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-247416.html