Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1312

Just a quick one to say that I am still homeless and jobless! We have applied for a 2 bed appartment, fully furnished as well which is hard to come by here. Hope to hear back on that today. We are going to be living with ex Popstar Andy Orr (of Six fame), and Anto - a guy I played football with in DCU. They arrive in Brisbane on the 14th. Flying down to Melbourne tomorrow for the weekend to catch the Grand Prix. The Aussies we are staying with here are coming down as well (Dave - ex Pioneer colleague), and we will meet up with Blathnaid & Ian, Andy & Anto, Dale (Aussie we met in Vietnam), and a few other Irish.....should be a hectic weekend. So watch out for us on the TV, ... read more

I have no number of how many times some customer on the boat will tell me, with envy blazing out of their eyes, that I am so lucky to do what I am doing. And every time I will patiently reply that in the end of the day this is a job as every other job. Sometimes there are good days, but too often there are not so good days, and sometimes you are just left to ponder why you didn't go for the nice office job... But, when the going is good the going is very good... or something like that. When you have a good day, or a good dive, the whole world is a better place, and you cannot think of one single good reason why you ever would want to give this ... read more

I know... I know... I haven't written in a while but I have a really good excuse!! I have been having the TIME OF MY LIFE!! I've been doing things that I've always dreaming of doing. When we arrived in Surfer's, we headed to the largest mall in the Southern Hemisphere (The Pacific Fair Mall) and did some browsing. After that we headed to the CBD (City Business District.. that is what Australians call downtown area) for some dinner. We ate at this little Italian restaurant, then we all headed to an Irish pub (Gilhooley's) for a few drinks. We finally found somewhere that know what a Rye and Ginger was! We finally got a good opportunity to get to know our tour guide John, we had a good conversation. We all then headed across the ... read more

So, just thought I would share some images with the world and all my friends of how my life is... Envious anyone?? Hmm... on second thought... this whole uploading business does take ages, and I haven't had dinner yet (yes, I am ruled by my tummy) so I guess I will wait with more uploading untill another day (a better day).... read more

When it comes to a purchace of all thingsgreat and small ,especially our first home,we are very methodical about it.. We sold our dream car ,a HJ 2 door coupe Monaro 327 chev to help with the purchase of WhyWait. No more speeding tickets for us...lol We searched from our back yard all the way to the other side of the country and the suburbs inbetween,we looked at many and we realised as we went along that we needed a unit that Dean could stand up in, We also needed these things ; A shower, Solar Power, Innerspring Mattress, L.C.D TV, Laptops , Broadband Internet ( Wireless ), Yes , We were going to rough it for 6 years...... We found WhyWait at Moffats Beach Sunshine Coast,we purchased her on the 27th of Feburary 2005. Then ... read more