Well, here it is on the 30th, and Eric has officialy flown into this country to meet up with me. Well, this is quite a big country as we didn't entirely understand when we were making our plans to meet. Well, do to a little miscommunication (or lack of communication) between Pat, Eric, and me, Eric is now about a 20 hour drive north of Pat and I, and we were not able to pick him up from the Airport like I had originally planned to do. So, thus begins the adventure of trying to meet up! I think that'll be fun in itself!
In the mean time, Pat has been trying to figure out what to do with his remaining days here. He's constantly hitting himself for not spending more time here, as 3 weeks just wasn't enough! Like I said, Australia is a big country! Anyway, pat and I have been debating whether or not to B-line it up to Cairns to meet Eric, or if we should continue our "slower" pace up the coast. Then we stopped in Coffs Harbour, where it has all begun to spiral out of control!
Coffs Harbour is a really fun city with loads of Ocean things to do! Well, pat and I went into a dive shop to see if we could get a dive in. One Discover Scuba course for Pat turned into a full fledged open water certification for the next 4 days. So, while I was trying to convince pat of going further north so we could meet eric, it has turned into being stuck here for 4 days! But we do have a dive planned for friday which I'm pretty excited about!
In the meantime, Pat and I drove through Dorrigo natl. Park and saw some really intersting things. When one thinks of Australia, they generally think of the Outback. Well, as I recently found out, Australia is home to many other climates then just Desert. In fact, we spent two full days exploring Rain forest! The Flora and Fauna was unlike I have ever seen! Giant Eucalyptus trees being strangled by vines. Birds with beaks as long as my forearm. Ants with pincers the size of my fingernail. And spiders that would give anybody a spook! (In fact, we tried feeding one of the spiders with one of the ants! They fought a lot, and it turns out that the Ant won! Kind of, it just didn't get eaten, but it was still stuck in a web!)
Another great thing is the amount of camping we've been doing! Sure enough, it is car camping, but nontheless great fun! And a whole lot cheaper than paying for Hostels every night. If you've been reading eric's blog at all, then you'll see that he found it was cheaper to drive 10 mins to a place where no one is there, and just camp! Well, pat and I have found the same thing, except here, we just find beaches or beautiful lookouts, pitch a tent and call it good! It is quite an experiance, literally living out of a car!
And once again, my excuse. I haven't found my camera yet, but went camera shopping today. Didn't find anything to my liking quite yet, but trust me I'm working on it! What is terrible is all the pictures from Sydney with Pat and me, are gone! Plus a few extras from New Zealand. So sad.
Till next time! Miss you all!
2 comments:
Ohhhh! Make it up to Cairns if you can, let me know what it's like ;) that's where I am going next summer! Happy thoughts! Oh and booyah!!! First comment!
Bummer on the camera man... I have only lost a handful of pictures so far to my own stupidity... but even that sucked. I would really be bummed out if I lost an entire camera worth. Hopefully, I will get to read about you finding it again in one of your other posts.
-Russ
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