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How long has it been, sorry, it's increasingly hard as ever to get enough time on the PC. This round the world in 90 days lark has me running around like a maniac most of the time and flat out like a lizard drinking when I'm not. I think I saw myself coming back the other way the other day or am I just going slowly mad. Come to Australia you might accidentally get killed, no s***. There's the red back, the funnel web just lurking under a toilet seat near you, the Brown snake incase you were thinking about taking a walk in the bush, stay out of the river or the Croc's will have you for supper, they even have birds that can kill you and they can't even fly!! Then there's the more bizarre like a shell that can kill you two days after you take it home and yes of course trees that can kill you too. I kid you not. Oh and I'm sure there was something in the sea that wasn't very nice. Anyway I'm still alive, just. So where was I ah yes Whit Sundays, I don't know just when I think I'm not going to have anything to say I think back and wonder how the hell I'm going top have time to say everything I have to say. Since my last entry I've broken the sound barrier, come face to face with some of the deadliest creatures in the world, been on safari, wrestled a goat, surfed shark infested waters and that was just my days off. So my sailing adventure, amazing, I went out on a yacht sailing around the Pacific for two days two nights living on board. The crew consisted of this young Irish lad from Kerry fresh off another boat might I add, I very nice tally ho kind of chappie form Southampton and a good Aussie skipper. So you can imagine the scene 15 mainly British and European tourists on a small yacht living it up for three days being completely spoiled by the crew. You should have seen the amount of alcohol that was brought on board the Irish couple brought enough for everybody else alone. So you can imagine, the Captain's choice of party music, on deck barbeques visiting places like White heaven beach in the day time (which I'm told is in the top 5 beaches in the world), look it up you'll see what I mean, and sleeping under the stars in the middle of the pacific, at night, good times. Having never been sailing before I can totally recommend it although I didn't realize that the boat tipped up that far when it was going full speed ahead and sadly lost a few items to the sharks. Then it was back to Arlie beach for the night to do more drinking with the crew because we hadn't done enough. Arlie Beach is the gate way to the whit Sunday Islands and a bit like Ibiza uncovered full of drunken Brits falling over and breaking a few limbs and all before midday. Ibiza would have been cheaper I'm sure. Then I went off to a cattle farm in the outback where I learned how to crack a cattle whip, not easy I might add, shoot clay pigeons 2 out of 5! Good effort and competed in the goat rodeo. Now I didn't realise quite how feisty the little b*****s were but here's the deal me in the middle of a pen chasing a charging goat round trying to corner it so I can grab it by the horns and wrestle it to the ground, lets just say I think the goat had done this before and my denim shorts never did recover from all the goat s***. Then it was Fraser Island where you get to drive around the world's largest sand Island in a 4x4 and camp out in the middle of nowhere for three days. I got put in a group of Americans who wasted no time in asking me where I was from of course and when I told them Wales they glazed over and admitted that they thought it was a suburb of England, I could tell already this was going to be an interesting ride, and that it was. They decided the 23 year old American was the best person to drive and after she had driven with the hand break on for 10 minutes I told her the smoke she could smell coming from under the car was not a good sign and she should probably stick to the left side of the road if we all wanted to get out alive. Driving on a beach was fun but I have to say a little testing and a bit too hairy at times. I saw my first snake in the wild, found a red back spider under the toilet seat in the campsite and got approached by a wild Dingo looking for food but I have to say the most challenging part of the trip was me trying to put up a tent on the first night. Me and a tent, hmm the only camping I've ever done has been at Glastonbury in the late nineties and I think someone else in the group put the tent up that time. Anyway I'm still alive I'm doing well. After that I continued my journey down the East coast stopping in Noosa which loved, it's just like an up market Brighton! Lovely! And it's the gate way to Australia Zoo, I couldn't miss out on that. Ah Steve sadly missed not just here but all over the world. I just missed Steve Irwin day but all the tributes were still on display I must admit there were a few sad moments there and when they did the Croc show in the crociseum it just wasn't the same. But what a place Crikey what a ripper! It's huge you need a whole day to get round it and the thing I loved is that they actually bring the animals to you there are all sorts of things jumping around throughout the day then even walked the Cheaters on leads through the park and the let you had feed the elephants now that's something you don't do every day. I loved it. So I made my way through surfers Paradise, Brisbane and now here I am in Byron Bay. I've been doing a lot of surfing, and I thought my time was up yesterday because there has been a great white hanging around for a few weeks and I looked over and saw this fin coming towards us I really did thing that was it until it jumped out of the water with two of it's mates and started putting on a show for us, thank god for the dolphins. My poor heart can't take much more it was only the day before I came face to face with a brown snake hissing and flapping around all over the place. Thank god I had been to Australia Zoo and knew that they are lethal we ran and hoped it wasn't faster. So there you go, come to Australia you might accidentally get killed and if you survive your in for one hell of a ride.
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