Key West

The southern-most point in the USA, right at the end of Key West.... The hurricane damaged the sign so all that marks the point now is the buoy (pronounced BOY NOT BUUEEIE)


Apparently 'World Famous' it must be cos it says so.... so I obviously had to take a photo!


GET OUT NOW!


The water is even more beautiful in Florida after a hurricane because of the sand and stuff being churned up in the water which does something good with reflection of light to make that awesome turquoise colour. (notice continual use of 'u' in colour...)


Everyone in Key West is so laid back... Mr Cheapee's liquor and stuff!


Us with random people in the 'Green Parrot' the local watering hole.


These people are so resilient. They are persistant and never let the storms wreck their life. They are also the nicest community of people around, so welcoming and everyone here has a smile on their face. Could be something to do with living at the end of a string of islands near the equator.....


We participated in another great American (or Floridian) tradition.... queuing for petrol!
The problem after a hurricane is that while there is plenty of fuel in the underground tanks, no-one has any power to pump it with! This line took at least 1.5hours.... might have been more but we had a fantastic time, we played frisbee and drank some beer while waiting.


We were lucky that we made it to the station. We drove from home to 10km's out of Key Largo with the fuel light on which was really pushing our luck. We pushed the car down the line cos we couldn't be bothered turning the car on every 5minutes to move it. As we came into the station Sam turned the car on to pull up to the pump and we ran out of gas..... as I said, extremely lucky!

Driving game

Alan suggested a game he knew called 'a million questions' (great driving game) as the name suggests, it is the same as 20 questions but with basically unlimited questions (unless you want to try and count) We had never played this game before, so Alan had to convince us that someone could choose something as random as the 5th blade of grass on the MCG and the other people could conceivably get the right answer.... This is the benefit of this version of the game. You can choose ridiculously random things..... During our game the answers were

'the freckle Sam just discovered on his left hand'
'the silent 'h' in honour'
'a plastic bead on a mardi gras necklace from New Orleans'
'Ponce De Leon's discovery on the Florida Keys'

lol

Silly webcrawler

hehehe, an actual link posted on google!

I decided to see what else is for sale on ebay:

Uranium
Uranium for sale. aff
Check out the deals now!
www.eBay.com

We have no power! :( I mean why am I sad I love having no power! mad!!!! YAAAAAAYYYYY!!!

but we still have wireless internet?? The hurricane was fun, first one that actually sounded like a hurricane with high pitched wind noises.... I few windows popped out at the holiday inn...... Mine is still intact!

More pretty photo!!

Bugger!!

Batten down the hatches!

White Trash

Dave, Kate, Kim and Stu...... It was quite scary.... they could have easily been mistaken for truckers from the south! Great mullets!


Sam the Scot looking debonaire in his white trash singlet and jeans, complete with tattoos!


Rebecca, Alanna, Gina (our trip advisor/organiser person from MONASH!! YAY!) and me...

Crazy Scotsman

Check out this post on Sam's blog...... lol

http://saminmiami.blogspot.com/2005/10/god-bless-fast-food.html

Audioslave

Went to Audioslave a couple of nights ago! Was great show, especially when they played old Rage Against the Machine tracks. 'Killing in the name of' and 'sleep now in the fire' were great, Chris Cornell also did Black Hole Sun acoustically, and another highlight was a cover of Nirvana's Drain You...

Photo's as soon as they arrive from Chris's camera! and Chloe got to meet the love of her life, Jared Leto from 30seconds to mars.. the warm-up band.

Funky

CNNNN

Check this movie out...... it is very funny.

I miss CNNNN!!!!

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~mrbomber/1.wmv

Key Largo

Chloe's new house. Suprisingly not while drunk.


On our boat out to the reef off Key Largo.


Today we got taken on a trip by the residence hall people out to Key Largo. We went snorkling on the reef around an old shipwreck. It was great fun, we saw a Barracuda showing off his lovely big teeth and heaps of small tropical colourful fish. The visability was fantastic and made me even more keen to get my scuba certification. There were scuba divers around when we were there, checking the wreck out up close!


Tonight we had a ghetto/white trash party, this is the aftermath in the hallway outside my room! Note the sleeper! hehe

Sorry Fox

Oh, and apologies to FOX...... earthquake coverage is now ad-nausiem...... 24hrs a day.

Where da photo?

Lots of work to do for uni so it's been a slow few days! Apologies for the lack of exciting stories/photo's. We should be back to normal on the weekend with many a photo for all.......

I am very happy because Professor Sheridan has agreed to supervise me on my final year project next year for Engineering. He is one of the nicest people ever and he does interesting work in fluid dynamics. I am thinking of working on something to do with wind turbine design, as John worked with a PHD student last year who is now working for Tasmania Hydro..... or I saw that a student was investigating the flow around a golf ball in order to optimise the surface profile. I'm sure Dad would like me to do a project like that!!!

Funny

Thanks to Wendy for this!


>No wonder so many people say google's search engine can find anything
>for you
>1- Go to Google ( <http://www.google.com/> http://www.google.com)
>2- Type in the word "Failure"
>3- Instead of clicking "Google Search," click "I'm Feeling Lucky."
>4- Giggle
>5- Spread the word before the people at Google "fix" it.

I'm Fungry

This Asian python exploded when it tried to eat and alligator in the Everglades here in Florida. He must have been hungry! The alligator was 2metres long!

Fox

Was watching Fox news (because it's the only news channel my tv gets....) and after hearing an hour worth of 'news' regarding high oil prices and the supreme court nominations, they briefly flash up a map of india showing that an earthquake has gone off there. Probably no more than 20seconds.

I come downstairs to check the bbc website and over 1,000 people are dead!! Somehow I think this deserves more than 20seconds!

Tampa

Bus ride was ok, but I went a little stir crazy....... It was a 6/7 hour bus ride to a place that you can drive to in 3 hours so it was a bit frustrating. But it was CHEAP like the budgie. So probably worth it.


Downtown Tampa.... Downtown is interesting in a few cities I've been to in the US. Tampa reminded me of San Jose and Miami in that their downtown wasn't bustling like Australian capitals. There are not a lot of shops/things to do in these downtown areas. Everyone works in the suburbs and not much happens downtown at all. Hence they have problems with undesirables.


Channelside - ritzy area of town!


Tampa Skyline


We were waiting out the front to buy tickets in the nosebleed section for $5 each and a lady came up and offered us her season tickets cos it's the end of the season and she had spare tickets left over..... so we sat about 20 rows back right behind the catcher! Great spot to watch from, although no baseballs came flying our way!


Jon and me and the baseball - Tampa Bay Devil Rays vs Baltimore Orioles


Went to the 'Big Cat Rescue' park, where these guys look after animals picked up from Las Vegas stage shows and crap zoo's around the country. It was great to see these animals being cared for but it upset me that animals like these could be hurt in a country like the US. Apparently, under Florida law you can keep a lion in a cage barely bigger than its body.


Kitty!!


The Gulf of Mexico from Clearwater...