On the Bottom Half

Wild and Wooly Throats, Cat, and a Car.

That sounds like the name of a movie with questionable morals, huh?

I'm throwing logic to the wind for this post, sorry for the necessary decoding:

Buchan was a good trip - I spent the week wandering slowly back and forth along a creek valley telling second year students how to log volcanic sediments. There's a 400 metre-thick section of volcanic ash and breccia that was violently spewed from a volcano about 400 million years ago, which apparently makes for an interesting bit of rock for the youngins' to look at. Each lunchtime a kangaroo mom and her joey came by to visit and three kookaburras competed for the loudest call. Piccies and stuff comin', sorry about the delays with those. I developed a wee bit of a crappy throat after all that 'exertion' and coughed some pretty awful viscous biochemical extravasations on Monday and Tuesday.

Speaking of health, my camera has had a bit of a hiccough lately - it's decided that it doesn't like proper colour balance and has started giving me odd combinations of red, green, and yellow, black and white, or negatives. Oh well, 5600 snaps in 18 months has taken it's toll, I suppose. What with the humidity changes on the boat on the Great Barrier Reef, the rainstorms in Tasmania, the rivers in Japan, the heat of Texas, the sunshine in Newfoundland, wind in Medicine Hat, and desert dust of Central Australia, I guess I can't expect too much more out of it. You know, as I'm reading that, it sounds almost utterly ridiculous... Life's just a big darn chair of bowlies, I guess.

I passed the weekend caring for Bruce and Helen's petite cat and gained a car for the trouble. They are travelling in Turkey for the next little while and I'm caring for the house and animal while they are away. The big event on Saturday was the Aussie Rules Football Grand Final when the state stops and watches the Stanley Cup of Victorian sport. Then on Sunday was the Queenslander's grand final - rugby.

But seriously, things are pressing and when I stop brooding, I'll have a big decision for my faithfull readers. I promise that the next post will be about Japan and will include pictures.

Love you all...

posted by Kyle @ 07:13