Vegemite, Poisonous Jelly Fish, and Expensive Flights
Yup, you guessed it: I am writing from Australia.
How very odd it seems. All this time, all these countries and we have finally reached our last destination! We flew from Singapore to Darwin last night, arriving at about 3 o'clock this morning. We slept a bit and then spent much of this morning at the local Flight Centre trying to figure out how on earth we are going to get back to Canada for less than a million dollars....seriously, the one-way flights to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are coming up at more than I used to sell round trip tickets for...humph...oh well, thank goodness for Mr. Visa, because he will certainly be coming to the rescue today.
Now, we have heard and read from lots of people that Australia has a wide variety of animals that seem to be specifically designed to maim or kill humans...I thought people were exagerating, but that doesn't seem to be the case because we have been in Australia for about 8 hours (4 of which we were asleep) and no less than 6 people have warned us NOT to swim, wade or paddle our toes in the water because of the plethora of Box Jellyfish that like to float near the shoreline and sting people. And, "they will kill you"...not 'maybe' not 'potentially dangerous' but "they will kill you" is what we've been told!
Welcome to the Land Down Under, right? :):)
We will be be tooling about Australia for two to three weeks and then hopping a flight back to the land of Tim Horton's and snow...all quite exciting.
TK
How very odd it seems. All this time, all these countries and we have finally reached our last destination! We flew from Singapore to Darwin last night, arriving at about 3 o'clock this morning. We slept a bit and then spent much of this morning at the local Flight Centre trying to figure out how on earth we are going to get back to Canada for less than a million dollars....seriously, the one-way flights to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are coming up at more than I used to sell round trip tickets for...humph...oh well, thank goodness for Mr. Visa, because he will certainly be coming to the rescue today.
Now, we have heard and read from lots of people that Australia has a wide variety of animals that seem to be specifically designed to maim or kill humans...I thought people were exagerating, but that doesn't seem to be the case because we have been in Australia for about 8 hours (4 of which we were asleep) and no less than 6 people have warned us NOT to swim, wade or paddle our toes in the water because of the plethora of Box Jellyfish that like to float near the shoreline and sting people. And, "they will kill you"...not 'maybe' not 'potentially dangerous' but "they will kill you" is what we've been told!
Welcome to the Land Down Under, right? :):)
We will be be tooling about Australia for two to three weeks and then hopping a flight back to the land of Tim Horton's and snow...all quite exciting.
TK
posted by TK at 7:10 PM
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