Only a few for now!!! TOO SLOW!

The blog website sucks...running SLOWLY!!!so before these pictures get erased for the third time I am going to post them...sorry there are only three but it is not working ideally now to post more!!! Shitty!!! What can you do....I guess there will be more at a later time....!


This is a picture of a Koala....after being here for over a month, and seeing no native wildlife...I was happy to spot this lovely animal! They occupy the trees in Australia and can be spotted while driving along the road. This one we saw on the great ocean road in Victoria. To let you know how hot it was this summer...one even made the paper...when it climbed down from the tree and was spotted cooling off in a family pool! It stayed there for over an hour swimming and playing after three days of over 40 degree celcius (100 F ) weather....I had to laugh. Because that is exactly how I felt!


This my first sunset out at sea from the GREAT BARRIER REEF!!!!! The rainforest of Queensland is in the background and is one of the most unique spots in the world....two world herritage sites meet and the rainforest is the oldest in the world. I spent three days on a live aboard dive boat. It was a first for many things for me! It was my first time spending the night on the ocean and it was my first time doing diving at night. Al ltogether I did 11 dives. 2 were at night. And so far I have accumulated over 10 hours underwater!!! It is so great to be able to explore a world that most people will never get to see. I saw TURTLES!!!, and white tip reef sharks, many different fish and coral...too many to name them all! I am a diving adict now and can't wait to do more!



This a picture of me on the live aboard dive boat. That is Queensland in the background and my time on the Great Barrier Reef was almost at an end. I was really depressed and could easily wake up everyday with the ocean out my window. It was one of the best things I have done this far and I was so glad that I did it! It is funny how though after being on land for two days I still felt like I was rocking. Things were finally starting to turn around!!!

No use crying over spilled milk.....

Well, I almost now to Cairns! Whew!! It was a bloody hot drive through the Outback....which was the quickest way. Not really quick when the total distance was about 3,400 kilometers. Now the reason that I titled this post the way I did.....was for a number of reasons. First this is something that I tell myself daily....Australia has not been good to me and I have many times thought: get me out of this country...not really in those words....but ones more harsher. Daily I would tell Jayme 'what a beautiful country' this brought many laughs when we were sweating hot and seeing mile after mile of bush, flat land and nothingness. I was really thinking the complete opposite. Mostly this has to do with the crapper car we bought....yes there has been more shit with it! But this is where the no use crying over spilled milk comes in. I have thought many times why would anyone want to live here? Now I know I have heard from most people that they don't want to hear me gripe...because I am not working and seeing things most people will never see, and supposedly having the time of my life. This is true and I don't expect anyone to feel sorry for me, but not every experience is a time of my life one! I want to challenge anyone to experience this type of travel and tell me that it is not work. The backpacker type of travel I mean. Most people I know would not be cut out for it! Jayme asked me the other day, what food I missed from home....I told him that it was not food that I missed but the simpleness of things there. Most of you, the daily decisions you make are probably what should I have for lunch, or should I watch Friends or ER? Now I know that those are not the only decisions one makes in a day, but they are not hard decisions to make. Life on the road is hard work. Everyday things are about money....do we have enough to stay here, eat here, go there. And if we do any of those things are we going to have enough to make it through the rest of the trip.....Budget planning everyday takes a toll. Then there is the heat factor, which most people know it is hard to do anything when it is 100 degrees....which is what I have been in since we got here (it was their hottest summer on record) Now I know I am being tested, and that is why I tell myself to try and look forward because I can't cry about things I cannot change. Lets just say that there are many things I would do differently if I had a second chance. Maybe that is what backpacking is all about though, if you had all the money in the world, what would you learn....but that anything is at your dispossal. I met a guy here, that told me: that if bad things didn't happen, we wouldn't know how to fully appreciate when good things occur. This is what I have been trying to tell myself.....traveling like this, is teaching me alot of things, alot of it has to do about the places and things I see...but much of it also has to do with tools to use in life..I am I grateful for this....even though I whine sometimes, it is not because I want sympathy, but more of an understanding....that this life is not the easy life, nor one most people could endure, so to those who think that it is, it is not true....but I also know that this is the road I have chosen, and I am so thankful for being able to have this experience...the good, the bad, and the difficult...I will be a better person because of it! Love to everyone! Thanks for the definition about blokes....cleared that right up. I guess it really did come from Great Britian....do they use it there too?

Happy February

Well I can hardly believe that I have been on the road for three months now.....I have some new pictures to post but I am waiting to find a cheaper internet site...since that process takes me a couple hours to complete....that and for a rainy day. The planning for Australia did not go as expected.....I had no idea that this country was the size of the entire US! I was not thinking it was quite that big and am laughing at my naiveity now...thinking I could see everything in 3 months.... I am not going to be able to see a quarter of it! Luck has turned around a bit and I am now heading up to the Great Barrier Reef, and the beaches on the Queensland coast. I am looking forward to doing a live aboard dive tour for a few days and checking out where the rainforest meets the ocean. We did the great ocean road a few days ago and it was amazing to think that men carved that road by hand. It didn't quite compare to the 101 on the West coast US, but it was spectacular in its own way. I have been really observing Ozzies though and learning the quirks of their lingo and interesting way of saying things. I wonder daily how these words came to be a part of their lingo...being that their decendents in Great Britian don't use these words....I will have to do some research and talk to some more locals. Some of these words are pretty funny to me anyway. For instance shopping carts are called trollys here. This is true everywhere and I told Jayme one day while at the store, isn't it funny that the lady at the checkout called my cart a trolly only to go outside and see that there was a sign that said : please returns your trollys here. Another thing is that men are called blokes.....what is the orgin of this? If anyone knows I would be happy to be enlightened. I daily use the word bloody as an adjective just to amuse myself. I told Jayme, when he was crabby one day that he needed to go on a walkabout to clear his mind...on this bloody hot day! Our mood changed immediately and we were both laughing. It is true that most people say 'good day mate' and also how are you going? not how are doing? everyone says that. And Jeff please keep the profanity from the website.....you will be pleased to know that we did throw some shrimp on the Barbie....and to all those that love BBQ.....you should move here....it is the most popular thing to do here....that and drink some VB beer. Well that is enough rambling for now...hope everyone is doing good....I will hopefully post lots of pictures really soon...