Australia is so strict about quarentine! they x-ray your bags when you enter the country but not for metal but for biological stuff. They stopped me and searched my bag because they'd seen something on the machine, turned out to be a packet of soothers and mud on my shoes, which they then proceeded to claim was manure and i was like, if it was manure it would smell like manure, that's just mud, but the women still saw fit to shout across the room 'oi Sheila! yeah we've got some shit on shoes, can you hose them off for us?' which would have been really embarrising if i wasn't increadibly jet lagged. So Cairns is HOT! but also increadibly wet half the time as ,and nobody told me this before hand, it's monsoon season and
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