Sorry it’s been so quiet lately, recently I’ve been busy working to get a photo gallery setup and hope it will be up and running by Wednesday.
Meanwile, here is a little catchup:
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
A few weeks ago, Kristen and I gassed up the car, and headed north to Brisbane to visit the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. One of the first things we discovered was to “never again, use (www.whereis.com.au) for driving directions”…..EVER! The site seems to have some aversion to telling the user when you need to change from one highway to another. (it also doesn’t help that they don’t seem to believe in North or South, they use the local suburb names, for example, they don’t say “drive 880 South”, they say “drive 880 San Leandro”, so it helps to have intimate knowledge of the local suburbs). As we tried to find our way around we quickly discovered we need to budget for toll costs for the roads. (We’ve been spoiled living in California with all our FREEways 🙂 ). Eventually we made it. Lone Pine is a great place, one wonderful thing we discovered was that they don’t have a problem with the visitors being up close and personal with the animals (not counting the crocs, dingos, and tazzie devils). There was this one small (unmanned) gate we passed through that led to a fenced in park area, with picnic tables, trees, and tons of Kangaroos. You can walk upto the herd and pet them, unsupervised. We fed some birds, got Koala Hugs, hung with the roos and had a fun day.
Fun In The Sun
Yesterday had a constant rain that ended up in thunder and lightning (god I miss that) into the night, but today I woke up to a right blue sunny sky and decided it was a great day to head out and play in the surf. The waves were perfect for beginner surfers so I grabbed a board from the local shop and paddled out. I caught a few waves, not for extended periods of time, but I was up 🙂 I practiced keeping my balance sitting on the board between waves, and also discovered out that I really need to work out my arms a lot more (you get tired real quickly paddling back to your spot into the waves). Unfortunately I had to end it when my knee shifted while I was trying to push up on by board on a big wave, luckly it wasn’t too bad, but I’m currently nursing it and going soft until it isn’t so tender.
In three weeks I’m meeting with an instructer to learn how to Kite Surf grin
Stitches Are Out
On Friday I finally got my stitches removed and they told me that I don’t have any melanoma cells. (yay) Although I think I’ll take out my own stitches next time, that nurse seemed blood thristy with that talon of a knife that she was using. I had to have bandges put on afterwards becuase she cut into my leg and it was bleeding.