Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4684

Well, since my last blog I have now travelled through central Australia and made it up to the capital of the Northern Territory Darwin! I have had a fantastic trip and seen some more great sights. The highlights were swimming in the thermal pools at Mataranka surrounded by hundreds of fruit bats, eating green ants and kangaroo tail while learning how to throw spears on an aboriginal experience day, a yellow river billabong cruise only topped by a jumping crocodile cruise and a hike in Kakadu National Park. Now arrived in Darwin for some much needed air conditioning after temperatures reaching 45 degrees! Not nice when you are camping. Had a wild night in Darwin last night and now have a few days to chill before I head to Cairns!... read more

We finally got aroung to having a house warming party at the beginning of November. It was also a goodbye party for Liza & Micah who are going to do some travelling and work in Canada for a few months (you can check their blog out at Liza & Micah ). We were lucky enough to have decent weather for the event. We had fairy lights, candles, and even a fire to create a party atmospehre. There were lots of people, lots of drinking and lots of dancing. That was until the police dropped by, after some complaints from the neighbours. Ooops. (The neighbours were actually at the party as was pointed out a number of times, but I guess the old people's home down the road didn't appreciate the music too much!) So the party ... read more

Well it is official....I have Graduated from NSW's Primary Rescue - USAR Category 1 course....It was the best course i have ever participated in...even though they payed me out constantly...it was good though...thae hardest part was the different terminology....for example if they call the trunk of a car the "boot" and the engine hood the "bonnet"...lol...took some getting used to...but i am almost bilingual in Aussie izms... Hey Brind did u get a flight here? Tara- its getting to be beach weather!!!!! but i am sure u will have fun sledding Mom and Dad- I am keeping out of trouble... Porter, - Thanks for the note dude,....you would love it here JT- i reckon you couldnt handle it here...lol...kiddin you would be off your dial Travis - let me know when u get your ticket Nicci- ... read more

alright cobbers, just wanted to check in once again, just finished work late again after yet another wedding function, i say this with all honesty, the guys tonight where the most boring bunch of people i have ever heard speak. it seemed as if they all wanted to give a speech but they all said the same boring shite. plus they were 36 & 39 so everyone there was pretty old and alas pretty minging, nothing gets the shift ripping by like a bunch of good looking girls. so pretty much i've been hanging out and doing very little else, i'm going to go down to phillip island where they have penguins, kangaroo's and koalas, so that should be cool i could get pecked, punched and severly scratched by possibly the cutest animals on the planet ... read more

Dear Diary, (that's all of you people...) It is officially one month to D day. I am sitting in my very small college room lamenting about the price of beds in small rooms all over England, and in Paris and New York. I think i have begun this fine art of travelling down to its bare bones, but i think there is still alot of meat, and unnecessary (but tasty) fat to go. What do i mean? Well i am, as most of you know, obsessively organised: case in point - a diary entry 1 month out, (yeah i know, as i said obsessive but i figure that most of you won't read it till i go - so there.) But even i have been finding it a bit of a struggle to get on top ... read more