DAN ADVENTURE

WELLLLLLLLL!!!! This great time has come to a end. Dan has arrived which is a doubled edge knife. It means my time in OZ has finnaly closed into a month. It also mean travel time.

Sydney With Dan


Dan got here on a Sat morning like everyone into OZ 6am the first flight in from anywhere cause that is when the tower opens. He actually had to wait at LAX to leave because the tail wind would of gotten him here before 6 and they didn't want to have to circle the airport. The also lost his luggage so he actually left the airport pretty quick. We left and to the train back to my APT. At this point he was dirty and wanted a clean set of clothing and they had giving him 100$ to get some to hold him over till his luggage came. Well we went over to Kmart and bought some clothing and then showered. After that i did what i did with Kyle WALKED! we walk from my apt to the opera house. Then after taking picture and generally just showing him the area we walked across the bridge.



We then took the train home and Ate some food. We then got some cereal for brekky everyday to save some $$$$. We then went to Paddy's market to get some shopping done and at this point were pretty much spent and tired. I was tired cause i wasn't used to waking up till like noon and had to get up at 5am to pick up and dan and he was tired from all the flight.

The next couple days at this point at a mess in my mind so im just gonna start talking about what we did in any order i remember.

We went to Bondi beach and slept in! It was actually was really nice at the beach but no one was swimming just a bunch of surfers. It is too cold to swim now unless you have a wet suit on. We walked around a took picture and then when back to town. When we got back we went to the QVB to show him some of the older buildings in Sydney. after that we went to the Tower right about dust so we saw the daylight city and the night time city.

This day I remember it was super museum day. We went to the aquarium and maritime museum. We wondered around in these things forever. It took from about 10am till 5 to do both of them. I didnt really get any pic of most the stuff but i did get a picture of a boat

The next day we went to the zoo. I have probably been to every form of Zoo OZ has now. We did see both the new baby elephant and a baby Roo.

On the way back we stopped at the tower for some day shots. Then at night we went to the Imax to see Transformers 2. It was defiantly better the second time becaue i could just watch it and not have to keep up with the story line.

At this point the next day we left for Alice Springs

We had the biggest bitch know to man at the airport. We e checked in but because we had emergency aisle seat we had to go to the counter. Well the "special counter we had to go to had a que infront of it blocked of from every angle. So after trying to get this lady attention we open the que and walked in. This must of angered her because she thought we were cutting. Then she wanted to look at our bag to make sure they fit and were not to heavy. Well they were to heavy because OZ is only 15lb which is nothing. I had just my sleeping bag and dan tolietrys and a sleeping pad and that was over 15lb. So we screwed with teh scale and because she was a idiot didnt see my foot holding up the bag HAHAHA so we walk up to the counter and got our real tickets to the plan. At this point I hope the rest of her day was horrible and full of missrable coustomers. I got eticket so i didnt have to talk to people. The only person i did have to talk to was a moron. I then went through security with no problem. Well no problem for them i had my steel toes on and im pretty sure they should of sent the detector off but they didnt. At that point i really wonder how good those things are at detecting metal.

We sat next to this guy that does hte EMT and fire on the airport runways. He worked 2 weeks in Brisbane then 2 weeks of then 2 weeks in Alice springs. He lived in Brisbane. We talked to him for a while about his job and the amount of flights.

ALICE SPRINGS

This is the first city i have actully felt unsafe in. I hate to see it but i think it was becasue of the aborignal people in the town. It was was pretty shady they all sit around and lurk asking for cigs and lights or change. It reminded me of downtown Detroit. We pretty much walked the whole town in about a hour. It is really tiny and has nothing in it. We walked back to the hostel and watch the tv for a little bit. That night we went to sleep early as we had to be up at and out by 4:45am to get to go site seeing. Well i should of know better Aussie are never on time for anything it just isnt in there blood. We went out we it was -2 C no one was waiting for us and so we went back inside to watch the morning news. This other british couple said the bus came at like 5:05 and then i got a call at 5:10 asking where i was. We then spent the next 5 hours driving to the middel of nowhere.


Once we got to kings canyon we walked around and got a little info about the area. What people ate and that this was a water hole for the early explorers. I also found out the grand canyon is a gouge and not a canyon. One part of it may of been a canyon but the part we look at and call the grand canyon is a gorge. After looking for any information i cant find out if this is true. A canyon according to the guide is formed by a earthquake and the rocks moving which then cause a change in the water table which will cause the creation's of the gorge. A canyon is a deep cut made solely by a erosional. I cant find anything so you be the judge.

We then got to the camp site and made a fire. IT WAS FREEZING. so skipping a winter must of thinned out my blood some. It was really cold but it was only just freezing out. I now worry about how i will fair at tech. We cooks some BBQ and sat around the fire and talked about our travel and life then went to sleep. We woke the next to get to Ayers rock befor sunrise. We made it

After walking aorund the 9km base we left and i snaped this shot


After that we went to this other rock formation. At this point i really didnt care about rocks anymore. Nor did i care about anything. I was tired from not sleeping well and also sitting in a bus for hours drains you. We did take a group photo at it


We then went back to Alice and all went out to eat and then to sleep because tommorow was another plane ride.

Cairns

We got there and walked into a room that looked like it was trashed. That because it kinda was we went to sleep and woke up to go scuba diving on the reef.

At this point nothing really happened different from the first time. We went out and went under. Dan has trouble with breathing under water and was not able to go so he stayed top side and snorkeled. The only other interesting point was i was showing Dan that the finish on my camera was peeling from the sea water and we drop the camera into the sea. Luckily a diver saw it drop and i held my breath and meet him half way down. I could believe how hard it is to get 5m down. I had to pop my ears twice on the way down. After that we went back to the hostel and did nothing Cairns is really boring if you don't want to go to the bars. we were going to go to the beach but Dan burned his feet and didn't really want to. so we watched some tv and went to the mall because i needed a new book to read seeing i had finished mine. We then found out waht time Harry Potter and watched that. We then woke up the next day and went to the airport to get our flight back to sydney

At this point i may or may not update this again with the next leg of travel befor i arrive home we will see.