G'Day Mates!

That's Australian for heya, how you doing?

It's Tuesday night here in Bribane (Bris to the locals and otherwise lazy) and it feels like a Seattle summer night.  The downside to that is that warm + dark makes you think it's time to go to sleep and it's only 9 pm.  Oh well, I'll keep chalking it up to getting acclimated.

So far, we've driven about 400 km around the east coast of Australia.  This is a beautiful country even if everything here does want to kill us.  Seriously.  It's funny, telling people you are going to Australia is like telling someone that you're getting your wisdom teeth pulled... they will tell you every horror story out there.  People have told us that the snakes will kill us.  The jelly fish will kill us.  The bugs will kill us... hell, even a FLOWER will kill us.  Seriously.  We've started keeping a list of Things That Want To Kill Us and Things That We Saw That Wanted To Kill Us But Didn't.  It's getting to be a long list. 

It doesn't always feel like a different place here.  People talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road, but you see more than enough of what you're used to that you have a sense of normalcy.  Which is a completely wrong impressiong to have as this is NOT your mother's country... unless of course you are from Australia in which case it is.

It's late here, and I am tired.  Check out my flickr set here:  GO DOWN UNDER

And to wet your whistle, here's a picture to keep you occupied:

Springs

I haven't even told you about the possums!  *sigh*  so much, so little time.

Next stop:  we hit the town and take in the local sights.  And hope to make it up to the reef to go diving.  That's another story.  :)

Later Mates!