Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Josephine Falls
The last two days have been awesome, the sun finally came out. We've been trying to make a trip to Josephine Falls for weeks now, but the opportunity hasn't come up... mainly because of the rain. Josephine falls was only an hours drive south of Cairns and it was a super nice drive too, you could see how much the area had been flooded over the last few weeks just from the insane amount of rain there has been here lately. I was slightly worried that it might be one of those places that there's loads of hype about and really nothing to see, but it wasn't that at all. The water there was crystal clear, the water falls were super wide and impressive too and the best thing was that there wasn't heaps of people spoiling it either. Such a sweet day. Another really cool thing was that in the slow moving water pools around the edges there was heaps of Yabbies (which are basically fresh water shrimp), the boys tried there hardest to catch a few but for now the Yabbies were lucky. Next time we intend to go back with a net and a bbq, with garlic butter at the ready. It'll be delicious!
The light was super bad, so most of the pics didn't turn out too great...
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| A stink bug, apparently they smell like coriander? |
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| Tim and George |
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| Tim just assessing the pool |
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| Flowing water |
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| Another shot of up river |
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| Josephine falls |
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| Down stream |
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| Me and the boys trying to catch the Yabbies |
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| The biggest spider I have ever seen, way up in the trees, easily bigger than my hand. |
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| An disused industrial area we spotted on the way home |
Monday, March 19, 2012
...and so the rain continues
I feel like my life has been put on hold over the last 3 weeks, literally all it has done here is rain, rain and rain some more. Its making me depressed, I feel like I have not seen the sun in so long. The worst thing about it being cloudy and raining al the time is that it makes it super muggy and unbearable. Its fair to say I have never ever seen rain like this before, it definitely rains in England but not like here, here it torrential down pours for hours even days on end, its crazy. Today we had to park the car on a bank as our whole drive way and most of the street is under water, I've seen plenty of cars today that are almost stranded in the huge puddles. Absolute nightmare! Apparently we're on the edge of a cyclone, eek! Watch this space
Monday, March 12, 2012
another wet day
For my Dad
I saw this and instantly thought of my Dad and Jethro (our Dog), I thought he'd appreciate this alot!
the Sunday sessions!
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| Some of my work crew |
Apparently Sunday is the new Saturday for me and my work mates, its becoming a tradition. Finished work last night, got changed, drank a bottle of wine whilst waiting for everyone else to close and finish up and hit the town. Pretty epic night, I had a lot of fun! What was best is that I was so wasted that I forgot it all, I remember the whole night! I'm super stoked about everyone I work with too, they're all so awesome!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
cable park March 5th
For Errol's birthday a few of us decided to go wake boarding at the Cairns Cable park. What an awesome day! I was a little nervous as in the past every time I've been to a cable park I've struggled massively. This time I had no troubles whatsoever and popped up first time, even the boys bailed first time. So I was pretty chuffed with myself. We did this on Monday and today its Thursday and my body is still feeling super sore! I want to go again though, very soon!
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| George and I , he must have been talking stupid... looks like I wanna punch him |
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| Waiting nervously for my turn |
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| Me getting up first time, even the boys fell first |
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| Errol killing it on the box |
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| View across the lake |
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| Lily pads |
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| Dragon flies making out |
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| The Birthday boy looking rather stoked with himself |
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