Brisbane finally

The trip is almost over, and we've made it all the way to Brisbane, Funds are CRAZY low, but we're still managing a good time. I'm not sure how often, if at all, we'll be able to get back here so it's good to get most of it done now, something to tell my kids when/if I have any.

one good thing about Brisbane is that our Hostel has FREE WIRELESS INTERNET!!!!!!! which is both exciting and a bad thing since it's now 10:05 and i'm online just typing away, but what am I supposed to do my American dollar is worth very little over here and my AUD is slowly slowly going the way of the dodo bird.

Money troubles aside its been a great trip! after Darwin we went to see Uluuru and The Olgas (can't spell the Aboriginal name for that one, it's offensive to call it that but if they want me to be able to spell it they have to make it easier to spell, inconsiderate aboriginals) They were big rocks, but impressive big rocks, sunset is supposed to be really great there, but we had so much cloud cover that it really didn't change the color of the rock like it's supposed to. Not really all that worried about it I got a picture of me touching the top of it, standing right next to it touching the top(the rocks not that big)

There's a guy outside my window talking about how his Mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and fell in love with the guard and was allowed privileges which he then used to cement his case for his mother being a gypsy, interesting story.

After Uluuru we went back to sydney and flew out to Tasmania. We booked a tour that looked good at the time, but after we got on it we were REALLY pissed, and ended up having to go back to a place because our cameras had died, but that place had a baby wombat and they're like 3rd or 4th on my list of the worlds cute things.

1)Gizmo
2) Kracker
3) Baby Sea-lions
4) Baby Wombats

I think that list is pretty solid, I DARE anyone to come up with better list. but our camera had died and we needed to get pictures of a Tasmanian Devil for barb, which are pretty cute animals in themselves. Then I started talking to a Kangaroo, which was weird since I may or may not have eaten his brother, and every time I asked a question it would shake its head and answer, danielle tried to video tape it, but that didn't work out because like every other bizarre situation in this world once you try to record it they STOP DOING IT!!!! stupid hyper-intelligent kangaroo. We tried to extend our stay in Tazzy because it is ABSOLUTELY beautiful down there, but it would've cost 204 AUD to extend ONE DAY!!!!! stupid airlines and their not letting me do things for free rules. I missed the part of the trip I really wanted to go on as a result, we would have taken a 4 hour boat ride from Port Arthur to Pirates Cove on the southern end, and we'd already done MOST of what was on that trip, but i really wanted to see the Tazzy coastline, it's supposed to be great.

back to Syd then the next day we flew up to Hervey bay where we IMMEDIATELY booked a trip for Fraser Island than watched TV and played Chess for 2 days since the Fraser Island tour took up roughly 1/3rd of our remaining funds.

The CoolDingo tour was REALLY great though first day we went all around to these Basin Lakes that are made out of sand and water and the water is crystal clear and the sand is white.(notice most lakes have some degree of sand/water combo) there's something about rotting vegetation and trees zapping nutrients but whenever I try to explain this Danielle corrects me so I'm not going to try. Most of this trip was just swimming at random basin lakes, and creeks etc, but we got sunburns and had a really great time, meet two english people, a welsh girl and a big group of Norwegians who we hung out with on the last day and even into the evening back on the mainland. Our tour guide Mike was a really great guy, hung out with us, went swimming feed us so much damn food we could probably not eat for the rest of our time here and still be using the fat from our Fraser island trip.

after that we took a bus to brisbane and slept most of the way. That'll get you upto date. I wish I had another story for everyone, but really the last one was a lot more spontaneous and now I can't get started. Also if I write a new one and it's not as good oh the pressure. I might try to write another one tomorrow but who knows. I got so much positive feed back from the last one that I really want to do it again.

Love
-KMO