hippo and dog

He he he! Och Aye the Noo!

Oh Dear!

It is terrible within a month I have become one of those bloggers that abandon their blog for great swathes of time! Having not posted since July 11th I really should get my act into gear!

Well, I had 4 days of Madness in Kuwait, packing and moving like a demon and playing with my lovely dog who has now finally learned to walk unaccompanied and not bog off into the deep blue yonder!

I've been in the UK for about 2 weeks now and I'm having a blast. Have spent about a week at my Aunt's farm on a hilltop near Sheffield, been down to my uncle's near reading and to a family wedding and I'm now back at my Aunt's.
It would be beautiful at all of the above locations if it had not been pissing it down with rain for the past 2 months in the UK. I'm fed up of rain damn that La nina current off South America for sending the Gulf Stream further North and giving us bloody rain, last Summer was gorgeous and I got thoroughly sunburned but now rainscald is more the done thing!

Back to Q8

Well, I had a fantastic last week in Oz. After all the Wobbegongs and Turtles I headed inland to the Gold Coast Hinterland at Binna Burra, Wow! I was camping in a permanent tent and did some rainforest walks and saw Pademelon (small Kangaroo) in the wild- too cute- hence piccie!
Just finished downloading my photos and they are well cool. Now in the midsts of the madness that is moving house. Almost finished but now got to find homes for all my crap ad believe me I have a hell of a lot of it!

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie- Oi, Oi, Oi!

Well, thankfully fate decided that I would have a fantastic weekend's diving and see ten million turtles, loads of wobbegong sharks and humpback whales on the Big Cat Reality liveaboard. I'm now back in Brisbane prior to heading South to Binna Burra near Mt Tambourine at the New South Wales Border. Back to Q8 on Sunday to move house in 4 days- madness I tell you! Ah well, someone's got to do it!

Fate, destiny and all that crap!

Well, I recon it's just not going to work with me and diving at the moment. How frustrating that it's pissed it down for 3 days with rain, today is the first day of good weather but the conditions are not right for diving, guess what, they aren't going to be right tomorrow either so I'm just going to have to wait until the weekend and my diving liveaboard off Brisbane.
Well, instead of diving I went to Australia Zoo, thankfully I put it off from Yesterday as it was truly vile weather and soggy crocs and roos aren';t as much fun. Had a lovely day today, started with a massage at Mooloolaba then off to Australia Zoo.
Been playing with my new camera too, I am so glad I bought it as the x12 optical zoom makes all the difference. I got some action shots of Crocs being fed and I'll post them soon!
Off back to Brisbane tomorrow so I'll probably not post again til next week!

Rain Rain go away come again another day ( after I've bloody left!)

It is official Australia is bloody soggy at the moment. Despite being on the sunshine coast I swear it has pissed it down with rain for the last 2 days solidly! I am re-naming it the rainfall coast. Despite that I'm having a good old mooch around and had a lovely day yesterday.
I went to the cinema to see "Blades of Glory" Bloody hilarious I tell you. having been a bit of an ice skating virtuoso in my past I found it great with loads of cameo appearances from figure skating greats. I then found a nice cafe with an umbrella to keep me dry and sat an read my book. I must recommend anything by Jodie Picoult, she is a fantastic author and she uses very emotive topics to get you thinking. I'm reading "19 minutes" at the moment but you should start with "My Sister's Keeper".
Right, I'm off to fight through the rain to Australia Zoo (home of the late Crocodile Hunter-Steve Irwin). Kangaroos are still cute when they're wet hey???

Shinu Hather?

It is bloody freezing in Oz! I left Brisbane in a massive storm yesterday and it rained all night in Bundaberg, thankfully I braved the freezing temperatures due to the wonders of reverse cycle air conditioning- heat = my friend.
Well, I had a lovely time in brisbane, it was really nice to catch up with my friends and see loads of things including cuddling a Koala at Lone Pine Sanctuary. I went cycling through the city's Botanical Gardens and trendy South Bank area. It was lovely. Saw Shrek 3 as well and guffawed and giggled my way through it Merrily!
I'm now up in Bundaberg staying in a gorgeous little B and B and mooching around in my Banana yellow hire car- I always wondered who bought those bloody things and yes it appears that AVIS do!
Off to the bundaberg rum distillery this afternoon and then off to a sugar cane museum to do a bit of swatting up on plantation agriculture- got to do some school work! If it doesn't stop raining I'll be forced to go to the cinema again!
Unfortunately it seems that just about every dive shop in bundaberg has shut up shop, gone bust or into hiding so will prob have to wait for Rainbow each and the Grey Nurse Sharks to dive.
I had to bite the bullet and buy a new wetsuit the other day as mine had started to feel like tissue paper and had about as many thermal insulating properties as an ice cube! So hopefully the sharks will appreciate my new combi 7/5mm blue and black Oceanic suit-$600 Aussie well spent!