Thursday, 6 September 2007

Play that funky music, white boy!

Bourne Ultimatum was a great film! Some bits didn't make sense because I hadn't seen the first two films in the trilogy, but it was fun nevertheless.

Yesterday I went to Australia Zoo and it was pretty cool. I saw otters (they were unbelievably cute), more crocodiles, alligators, koalas, tigers (!!!), kangaroos, laughing cockatoos etc.etc. This was great, but most of them I'd already seen in the wild. Even though it rained heavily all day, it was a good day out.

Today, I decided to head up to Noosa National Park and take a look at the bushwalks around there. Every walk I seem to go on, they massively overestimate the time it will take to complete the walk. I walked 10km, and they claimed it would take 5 hours! I'm guessing this had something to do with the fact that they suggested it was a strenuous walk, which it really wasn't.

The walk was cool, I didn't see any koalas, but the second half of the walk was coastal, and I sat eating lunch watching the surfers down below negotiate the ginormous swells. I've never seen waves as big, they were about 6 ft high!

After my walk, I went into town and grabbed a Subway (as in a sandwich, not an underground railway) and as I sat eating it, something odd happened. A cleaner came up to me, and, after kindly taking my rubbish, he asked me what I was doing around here, where I was from etc. and as he left, he pointed out that I had a bruise on my arm. He said it in the same manner as you would if you had, I don't know, a bit of dirt on your face, and that I was supposed to somehow remove this bruise because it was there by accident. Furthermore, he was surprised when I told him that the cause of the bruise was a horny goat. After this, I'm sure his mind jumped out on all sorts of tangents, but I explained that I had been wrestling goats and tieing there legs up. His surprised look didn't fade, I then lowered the weirdness tone by asking where the bus station was, I was getting a lfit back to the hostel by their courtesy bus.

Tomorrow, I'm hoping to do a 26km (just over 16 miles) walk, I've heard the weather will cheer up a bit.

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