Beachlife...

Hej hej!

Hur mår du?

What trouble have I been getting myself in to?.. Hmm, well, actually, after a messy weekend in Cairns, I moved back to Port Douglas and switched hostels to a place called 'Dougie's backpackers', which is a great little place (and where everybody really does know your name after a while!.. and I seriously am really glad I came!) Most of the people here are working or are staying for a while, there are the usual dorm rooms and such but behind all that is a campsite, filled with campervans and tents, and crazy people that don't go to sleep until the early hours of the morning. I'm in something they call a 'stylee' tent, basically a medium sized tent big enough to fit in two wooden beds and a lil' side table. The guy I'm sharing with, Gabriel, is an old guy who is from South America. Maybe I should get him to teach me Spanish? Anyway he's a good chap and was a bit peeved with the Italian's winning the world cup. Who can blame him? Anyway, its $110 a week to stay there which is pretty cheap...

I worked most of the week, and I must say the bar work I have is fairly ok, its not really difficult or anything, and most of the people that work there are alright which helps. During the days I'm taking time out to sunbathe near the pool at the hostel, or on the wide-ass four-mile beach that is 10 minutes walk from my hostel. The beauty of this beach, with it being so so so long, is that you can have your own spot, far away from anyone else. There is of course a main bit at the nortern end of the beach, where the lifeguards are, and a load of sun loungers where the familes seem to go and stuff, but the rest of the beach is mostly bare, with the odd local or backpacker soaking up the rays. Some wind, or boardsurfing (or whatever you call it) goes on down the south end of the 4 mile stretch. Palm trees line the whole stretch, and they hide away the resorts and apartments that are in heavy numbers behind the beach. The weather has been great on some days, considering its supposed to be winter-going-into-autumn here, its been a bit chilly at night a few times, and its rained a tiny bit, but its mostly warm and when the sun is out its spankingly-great.

lushlushlushlushlushlushlushlush!

Another thing I noticed the other day, the sun actually rises and sets in the east and west like it does back home, but here it passes via the North!? Is this because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere? Am I being really stupid? I never really thought about that, but its strange, and sometimes I almost lose my bearings as I think that the sun is in the South, but its in the North. Easily confused I guess.

After a messy Saturday night of drinking too much and dancing around like a maniac, followed by a Sunday filled full of the usual hangover joys, today I'm down in Cairns, may stay here a night as well, I'm not sure, depends on buses back, anyhoo Louise (who I used to work with in Blackbird in Sydney) is in town and she leaves tomorrow so we'll have a few bevvies and play catchup as she's just done the east coast.

I'm downloading the new Beach House album by Hed Kandi, as I'm in sore need of new music on my iPod! It is however taking an age to download, but will provide adequate tunage whilst I am increasing my chance of getting skin cancer on the beach.... So of course I have found time to amuse myself with the usual internet malarky such as Stickcricket and pictures like this. (He should have done it properly and landed one on the dirty Italian's nose!)

Thats it for now. Oh, before I go, Kelly, Kelster, the one-and-only, thanks for sending me that Gnarls Barkley track Crazy, I had heard it in some clubs around here but never knew the name. Its sitting happily on my iPod with its 5 stars... Their album must be worth a purchase, yes?

Ädjo!

Stevie.