One night in Oz

Sleeping in the car one night., originally uploaded by jasonwmak.

As Jennifer's previous post stated, we have run into some bad luck while touring Australia. Notably the rainy weather which caused us to drastically change up some of our plans. Anyways, while we were planning on spending a few days in Byron Bay surfing, we decided to fly up north Cairns to spend a few more days diving.

So anyways, we arrived late in Byron Bay due to the bad weather and decided that we were going to leave early morning. We simply needed a place to "lay our heads down". Anyways, the hostels were expensive and so we just decided to sleep in the car. Here is a picture of us setting up our beds! What a fun night. In the morning we were greeted by some wild turkeys looking for food.

As of now, we are in Cairns. I came here 10 years ago and it hasn't changed much. We are staying here for a week in a nice little sharehouse where we are sharing a house with a swiss couple, german couple, and a Australia lawyer. It is very nice compared to some of the crappy hostels we've been housed in (especially in Brisbane) and we are also finally enjoying some summer weather!

Anyways, we'll be offline for a few days as we are taking a boat out for two nights to explore the outer reefs of the Great Barrier Reefs. This was also the first place I tried scuba diving with Chelsea 10 years ago so i'm really looking forward to going back.

I've put some new pictures on www.flickr.com\ruchbum of sights we've seen in Australia so far. Sadly, nothing of Brisbane. Quite frankly, we didn't find that city interesting. Okay hope everyone is doing great!