from penetance to gushing waters

well, cairns was a bizare place...
huge bats the size of cows fly out at dusk while men roam the pubs like vampires in search of fresh meat.
there are more tourist info places out for your blood-i mean money, than there are coffee shops in amsterdam... lots more....

it was a time when i didn't really get a natural oppertunity to meet or talk to anyone, so it was an introverted time [i dont do well in bars and night clubs when the order of the event is getting blastered and grabbing the nearest butox and crying out "ozzie ozzie!" for your favorite team as loud as you can...... somehow being surrounded by people gropping each other randomly in pubs while they are playing "whats your penis look like" game shows is very depressing and just made me feel lonely and mildly depressed.

the only good thing about cairns was i got to dive again on the great disapointment reef, get my dive permit and finish finally with it. a word of heed to anyone who was thinking of diving here, there are much better places to go diving in the world, and in australia for that matter, the reef is nice to snorkle, and then its also only mildy nice cause you are treated like catle on these huge boats- really not my thing [especially after the pristine and private personal nature of the snorkling and diving one gets in tropical south pacific islands... yes, i have been properly spoiled!!!]

after my permit and after having a miserably borring time in cairs trying to figure out how to kill time without spending money i decided that the best way to kill time without spending money in cairns was to spend money... so i rented a car and got the hell out of vampire land.

after a number of calls i ended up with what i can best describe as a golf cart with an engine... good enough! within 30 min i was out of cairns and heading up the mountain to the nearest town and up into the table lands... rainforest tropical plateaus and areas behind cairns in-land.

in the table lands i spent two days and saw so many water falls its just rediculous... every few kilometers, another stop, another spectacle of rock-water-earth and tree melody; another dazling shade of blue and green... another photo which looks just like the last one, and a clock ticking away for me to reach the next one...

i did manage to see little mini rat like kangaroos [marsupials] and a platapus! platapusses are SOOOOO cute! much smaller than i was imagining them to be... while looking at a beautiful volcanic lake creator i was approached by an eldery woman who told me there was an environmental activist conference taking place in a small town's hotel later that night... i kept it in mind but didn't know if i would go...

sun set, i headed for a town where i knew there was lots of nice accomodation and then i suddenly couldn't recognize the town anymore... i asked in a gas station where i was; and naturaly i took the wrong turn and ended up in the town where the environmentalist speakings were... fate perhaps? i signed up and joined the seats of women [there was only one other bloke in the whole audience] and sat for a listen.

very disapointing... these people spent most of their time on the stage talking about themselves, showing slides of where they were born, drawing maps of the places they grew up and went to school... what is wrong with these people? are activists so starved of the lime light that at the first chance of glorry they just talk about them selves for half an hour? anyways, at the end of it i was rather confused and certainly less motivated to become an activist myself than ever- at least if this was what i would turn into!

the next day came, another few dozen perfect and glamourus waterfalls later [the city of fountains?] and i was back in cairns for my plane and WOOOSH off to Brisbane to meet ihor.
it felt great to just be on the road and doing what i loved and it did not mater anymoire that i was not with any [new] friends... i was just doing what pleased me.

Aaaah, flight departs and arrives in brisbane, and here is ihor! finally after 9 or 10 weeks of traveling i made it! [and 3 years of me saying... yeah i'm going to visit you ihor, i swear!]

its been a blast hanging out with him, we hired a car and are currently driving down the coast from brisbane to sydney. i'm out of time for now so our adventures will follow in the next blog report...
;)

yours truely, the grimlin.