Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1318

yowza! Greetings all. I have just returned from a splendid adventure. I will describe as skillfully as i can: Lara finished exams with apparent success...and moments latar....blammo!...we disappeared on to our trip. We took a bus to Townsville...and picked up her friend Ashley. This bus went on to a place called Airlie Beach. This is your standard tropical paradise town...lots of nice little shops...perfect weather....beautiful boats,water, harbour etc. What makes this town special is that it has 75 beautiful islands connected to it. They are called the WhitSunday islands. We did a little research and found out that some of them are national parks and you can actually rent one for yourself. So we did the appropriate bookings...and the next morning a boat took the 3 of us to our very own island with a tent, ... read more

ahoy me mates! Kent! splendid to hear from ya. sounds like you are knee-deep in computer insanity. All i know is that i am using an acer computer to write emails. can you top these madd computer skills? welcome to the future baby!! Anywho, i just finished my dive course. The last 4 dives were in the Great Barrier Reef. It truely is amazing. Just like you see on NAture/discovery television and such. I saw sharks, stingrays,huge sea turtles, eels, lionfish, clownfish, kettle fish and a ba-zillion others within about a meter of my face. Really exciting and a tiny bit scary. Breathing and moving underwater is also very unique. It feels like being in space....360 flips or just hovering in mid ocean is quite possible. The best part of being down there though is being ... read more

elo So the blogg is really blastin hot this week....i am responding to myself! Anywho, i am 3 days deep into my boat work experience and it is bruising hard. i know you must be thinking...o shut up brad...living in austrlaia...but i aint kiddin. This is seriously the hardest work i have ever done. It is a bit difficult to describe what i have been doing....the basic scrubbing and painting is constantly happening all around in awkward places...but the real stinker is putting what are called balists in what is called a bilge. A balist is a gold bar looking stone that weighs about 50 lbs. A bilge is a tiny sweaty stinky wet hard metal chamber that must hold these things....about 50 of them. The reason being they must counter-balance a large heavy staircase on ... read more

yip yip yippEEE SO i have had a splendiferous weekend. It started at a campus bar called Stingers....where all the hot college co-eds hang to get drunk. That night was a special "Rocky horror picture show" evening...with live band and an end of school year crowd. Being the transvestite wanna-be that i am, i decked myself out in one of Lara's hot black skirts, tight black tops, and yummy stuffffed bra...and all the proper goth makeup as well. I was lookin fine. Lara also dressed similar, one could even say, lesbian-like similar. fortunatly there were plenty of others also decked out in full spooky garb. The night brought some interesting encounters for me. First, a sort of butch like lesbian who was dancing next to me and lara took it upon herself to sort of start ... read more

so my days as an australia slacker may soon come to an end. I may do 1 of 3 things. 1) There is an offer to work as a crew type member on a boat, which would include full days of painting, sanding and general repair. At the conclusion of this 5 day work period...they would dive certify me for free. So that may be an excellent oppurtunity to save some dough and acquire madd skills. 2) run a local radio show. this would be extra cool because of the oppurtunity to use my ipod to provide the music. I could cue up the playlist beforehand....then just click play...and pause as needed. How freakin slick is that. 3) Help a guy with platypus research. I am not really sure what this entails..but it would likely be ... read more