Rescue me

  Cairns, Australia
Monday, November 20, 2006

I've been reading some of the recent entries which I have put on here and have come to the conclusion that they are shit!! Sorry I don't know what is wrong with me just lately must be too much sun and all this humidity!

Cairns isn't the most interesting place in the world, well I guess it might be if you are 17, stick thin and out on the pull and wanna get pissed down town every night but as the saying goes; been there, done that, bought the t-shirt and designed a new one!! So trying to write interesting things when you are doing nothing is quite a task even for some one of writing ability.

Anyway rant over.

So we are still stuck here and I guess if it wasn't for the fact that our Brian is arriving next Sunday we would be half way down the coast to Sydney now. We've well and truely out stayed our welcome here and would have left once Bill & Co had been and as we don't have much money the days Ben is not working as much as he would like to and i am getting bored to death. Cairns is too touristy and too expensive for me at least.

Last week me and two of the girls form our house went to Reef Teach. Basically it's a mad Irish guy called Paddy (as if there's a mad Irish guy by any other name!) who is a Marine Bioligist come diver who does this whicked talk about the Great Barrier Reef. He explains how coral grows and develops along with talking you through all the kinds of fish so you can recognise what you have seen. You gotta see it to beleive just how mad he really is and its well worth the $13 entry fee if not just for the choci biscuits.

Rescue me 04

When we got back Ben had brought a bird home from work. A bird with wings that is! It was homeless so he rescued it and oh so cute. He is back working at the airport for a different company putting up signs and stuff. Anyway a tree had been chopped down which contained a birds nest and this poor little thing was the only survivor. So after giving it a good feed and Phil and Lee trying to eat it (see pics) they took it the equivalent of the RSPCA so hopefully it will fully recover and go on to live a happy birdie life.

Almost forgot I had an email the other day from a journalist (Gayle) in Singapore who stumbled upon our travel blog and she has asked me to write a piece about traveling and Cairns for the magazine which she works for - oh my god recognition at last! Will let you know how it goes.

We have one week left then we are out of here.

To be continued. . . . .