Short Update...

My last shift at the bar where I'm at will be on the 7th of June. I'll have the latter end of that week to go on a big drinking binge and to say my goodbyes to anyone who is still around. The following week will see me go somewhere up the east coast of Australia in search of some fruit picking job for a few weeks. (If I can do a total of 90 days work fruit-picking then I can get an extra year on my current 1 year working holiday visa)...

There is some map thing on my Smugmug photo gallery. It kinda links my photos to a satellite image of most cities which is kinda cool. Anyway I hope it works as it gives you an idea of where I've been exactly.

Lastly, I went to the gym in the basement of our apartment complex last weekend and I walked straight into a big glass partition that for some reason I thought wasn't there. It wasn't even near the glass door and I'd been to that gym before so I dunno what I was doing. What a prize-winning-dork....

Was nice to chat to a few of ya's on MSN earlier. Seems the best time to catch people online is in the evening, which to me is after 3am! Bedtime for me now, I'm shattered, cyas.

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Yes I'm Still Alive..

Hi everyone, I've not posted on here for about a whole month, god I didn't realise it had been so long. I do apologise! Since I left my old job I've been working in Parramatta at a bar/restaurant/cafe called Transistor, and er, thats pretty much it! Alongside the unusual hours and the long journey to work everyday, I've just been getting up to the usual going out, not saving up any money and spending a lot of time sleeping! Not really much fun is it?

The visa laws are supposedly changing on the 1st of next month, so I'm going to wait and see what happens with those before I either go fruit picking near Melbourne, or go a little bit up north to escape the Sydney-winter-chills. If I can wrangle an extra year on my working holiday visa I won't have to go and pick fruit out for several hours a day for 90 days. That'd be nice.

I've got some more photos on my camera, well, I've got shitloads actually because I bought a dirt-cheap 2gb card for my camera (from eBay, where else!?) but they are mostly of drunken nights out and stuff. So I'll upload them when I find time and an internet cafe that isn't rubbish like this one...

Gotta go, Greece are playing Australia in the football, and I reckon that the Socceroos will get spanked, should be fun to watch in an Aussie local somewhere.

Congrats to my cousin Michelle & husband Chris, Michelle is preggers and they are expecting their 2nd little-nipper to in November. Check out their blog too (link on the right-hand-side of this page) of their trip in the USA. There are some really cool photos, and its a lot more interesting than this blog!

I'll write more soon, I hope you are all well?

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Mossman Gorge & Cape Tribulation

I kidnapped two of my flatmates; Tai & Kevin, stole a rental car (thanks Rose!) for a day and planned a day trip up north of Port Douglas, to Mossman Gorge and Cape Tribulation. Lovely little areas and I'd heard that it had to seen to be believed so off we went.

First stop, Mossman Gorge, forms part of the Daintree National Park. Although the gorge was so so cold it was definitely worth swimming in, and almost drowning away in the current as it was quite strong and I'm not the swimmer I used to be! Looked quite silly really! But as you can see from the pictures its a lovely little place and worth a dip!

The drive up to Cape Trip was lovely, twisty roads and some nice lookouts along the way, roads lined with tropical trees and the such. Took the cable ferry across to Cape Trip which is a nice lil' area with a couple of nice beaches, but we got there as the sun was in the low part of the sky.. Nonetheless we had a picnic which was very nice before driving back to home Port D... I'm sure that you can do loads of bushwalking and also go and do some reef trips but this was strictly a picnic affair... With loads of different types of cheese.. Every person in our flat was a bit of a cheese fanatic!!! Yum...

All in all, a lovely little trip! Well worth it, but I'd probably try to plan it a bit better if there was a next time, and leave earlier in the day as so to catch the sun when its at its best.

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