Age of Aquarius
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Swimmin with the Fishes, seeeeee
We are in Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef and it is beautiful! Jan and Greenie and I have been snorkin it up, touring the rainforest, monetarily supporting the Australian economy, eating and drinking up a storm and just hanging out and having fun in the sun. There is an awesome local swimming pool called the lagoon which has these beautiful silver sculptural fish which look like the small palm leaf ones sold in Hawaii and shoot water out of their tails and fins. 
The Lagoon on the Esplanade
The rainforest was so cool. It will pour down rain so hard and so fast that sometimes the water will build up enough on bridges to sweep a car off the road and into the underlying riverbed. The rains only last for about 15 minutes though and then it will be sunny again. Crazy rains. We went on a fabulous tour through the rainforests led by our fearless leader George, our Aboriginal tourguide who attempted to teach us some of the local language through his stories. He had the best stories about anything and everything relating to the land and Aboriginal history. Walking through the forest George would point out a tree and tell us all about the meaning of its Aboriginal name, how it will either kill you or heal you, and something about why the fruit/bark/roots/leaves are so special to indigeonous society. The man had so much tree knowledge it was insane. The forest was absolutely breathtaking. Walking through you could smell the rain seeping into the vines which twisted and curved around huge barks and glistened all shades of brown green, and even golden with the rain. It was enormous, poisonous, colorful, and moist.
I met some fun American girls, Nancy and Lauren, who do the JET program teaching English in Japan. The funny part though is Lauren lives next door to a guy who I went to High School with, Kelly Davis. Talk about blast from the past. We went out boozing a few nights ago. I danced it up with some guy who looked like Clark Kent with the square black glasses, soft and suave comb over and tight beefcake muscle shirt. I woke up with a backwards copy of the hand stamp from the bar we frequented night before on my inner thigh. I'm thinking that means I had a good time... I dont know.
SHOW ME KANGAROOS, CROCKS, AND JURRASIC PARK VELOCIRAPTORS!
SHOW ME FISHES!
Show me Liz's Blog
The rainforest was so cool. It will pour down rain so hard and so fast that sometimes the water will build up enough on bridges to sweep a car off the road and into the underlying riverbed. The rains only last for about 15 minutes though and then it will be sunny again. Crazy rains. We went on a fabulous tour through the rainforests led by our fearless leader George, our Aboriginal tourguide who attempted to teach us some of the local language through his stories. He had the best stories about anything and everything relating to the land and Aboriginal history. Walking through the forest George would point out a tree and tell us all about the meaning of its Aboriginal name, how it will either kill you or heal you, and something about why the fruit/bark/roots/leaves are so special to indigeonous society. The man had so much tree knowledge it was insane. The forest was absolutely breathtaking. Walking through you could smell the rain seeping into the vines which twisted and curved around huge barks and glistened all shades of brown green, and even golden with the rain. It was enormous, poisonous, colorful, and moist.
I met some fun American girls, Nancy and Lauren, who do the JET program teaching English in Japan. The funny part though is Lauren lives next door to a guy who I went to High School with, Kelly Davis. Talk about blast from the past. We went out boozing a few nights ago. I danced it up with some guy who looked like Clark Kent with the square black glasses, soft and suave comb over and tight beefcake muscle shirt. I woke up with a backwards copy of the hand stamp from the bar we frequented night before on my inner thigh. I'm thinking that means I had a good time... I dont know.
SHOW ME KANGAROOS, CROCKS, AND JURRASIC PARK VELOCIRAPTORS!
SHOW ME FISHES!
Show me Liz's Blog
posted by Juli at 9:31 PM
3 Comments:
Juli,
Sounds like you're having a blast, and all those jungle photos sure bring me back, just awesome. Speaking of photos, the fish sculptures one on the blog is absolutely stunning, honestly, the best photo of any place in Cairns I have ever seen! Great work!
38 days!!!!
Hey Juli,
This is my final try at a comment. For some reason my note deletes instead of publishing.
I loved the blog and your Fish Sculpture is breathtaking. A magazine cover me thinks!
Love you, Auntie J xoxo
Hi Juli ~
Loved your description of the rainforest, and the photos are great. Nice one of you and Greenie on the GBR trip.
Sounds like a wonderful time in Australia. I'm looking forward to your "best and worst" lists.
Love you.
Annis xo
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