I have a practice...today in...well, it's 00.52 and it's at 10.00 but I have to wake up at 07 to make it...awesome!
Not drunk the slightest bit, just been a long day. Went to Mardi Gras, which is the Sydney version of gay pride parade. It was a lot of fun! Went with Little J from Sveedala. Been with here more or less the whole day...damn...
Some new photos (not from tonight though). And I'm gonna go and take a shower to cool down. It's humid as here. Blah.
See'ya!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Compliments to the heart
My time in TAS is now over and I have some new adventures waiting for me here in Sydney.
I had a pretty good last night in Hobart, and ended up with me not sleeping at all until I got on the flight bus which I had to catch 04.00 in the morning! I was drunk, not totally f-ed up, but I was drunk when the bus arrived. My friend, Chad Kroger look-a-like was there to see me off, and before I had left, he gave me a pretty nice compliment. He said he saw me as a local. That really felt good to hear. Gave him a big hug and left him to his own devices.
Later at the airport, I covered my backpack with an animal body bag that I had bought at a veterinary (which was big enough to hold a rot whiler they claimed). And then, the first time in my entire life, I had to weigh my carry on bag. It was too big and too heavy. Damn! So I stepped aside, and just started placing things all over my body instead, and removed some of the pockets from my backpack. Then I heard on the radio from one of the clerks that the police were keeping an eye on me. If you saw me, you would understand. I had military grade pockets hanging off my belt like they would be holding grenades or clips for a gun. And they fact that my backpack is Blackhawk didn't help the matter either. But when I walked by I over heard them realizing that I had just removed the pockets to make it comply with the airline standards. Once I got past the security check point, I put it all back into my bag. Dumb ass. WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS GOING TO DO?! The guy was just doing his job, but being a douche at the same time.
Anyway, got to the hostel, scored some free breakfast and sleep the afternoon away.
Tomorrow I'm going out to a CouchSurfing meeting and meeting my old Swedish tutors daughter from Mexico here in Sydney. Random. Very small world. Oh! Really random. The older couple in front of the check-in line saw my backpack and asked if I had done any hikes in TAS, and then we got to talking and they had been at a wedding which was held next to the cherry orchard I was working at in Ouse(and we heard the music all night). Very random. Very small world guys. A lot smaller than you actually realize!
Ok, need to have a small feed. Think I need some more sleep. And speaking of sleep, the hostel I'm at is in a primo location. Close to the water, and reminds me of Hamarby Sjรถstad, but Aussie.
Ok guys, talk to you later yeah.
Spiderbait - Black Betty
I had a pretty good last night in Hobart, and ended up with me not sleeping at all until I got on the flight bus which I had to catch 04.00 in the morning! I was drunk, not totally f-ed up, but I was drunk when the bus arrived. My friend, Chad Kroger look-a-like was there to see me off, and before I had left, he gave me a pretty nice compliment. He said he saw me as a local. That really felt good to hear. Gave him a big hug and left him to his own devices.
Later at the airport, I covered my backpack with an animal body bag that I had bought at a veterinary (which was big enough to hold a rot whiler they claimed). And then, the first time in my entire life, I had to weigh my carry on bag. It was too big and too heavy. Damn! So I stepped aside, and just started placing things all over my body instead, and removed some of the pockets from my backpack. Then I heard on the radio from one of the clerks that the police were keeping an eye on me. If you saw me, you would understand. I had military grade pockets hanging off my belt like they would be holding grenades or clips for a gun. And they fact that my backpack is Blackhawk didn't help the matter either. But when I walked by I over heard them realizing that I had just removed the pockets to make it comply with the airline standards. Once I got past the security check point, I put it all back into my bag. Dumb ass. WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS GOING TO DO?! The guy was just doing his job, but being a douche at the same time.
Anyway, got to the hostel, scored some free breakfast and sleep the afternoon away.
Tomorrow I'm going out to a CouchSurfing meeting and meeting my old Swedish tutors daughter from Mexico here in Sydney. Random. Very small world. Oh! Really random. The older couple in front of the check-in line saw my backpack and asked if I had done any hikes in TAS, and then we got to talking and they had been at a wedding which was held next to the cherry orchard I was working at in Ouse(and we heard the music all night). Very random. Very small world guys. A lot smaller than you actually realize!
Ok, need to have a small feed. Think I need some more sleep. And speaking of sleep, the hostel I'm at is in a primo location. Close to the water, and reminds me of Hamarby Sjรถstad, but Aussie.
Ok guys, talk to you later yeah.
Spiderbait - Black Betty
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
I hates you weather!
I was meant to hike on the Walls of Jerusalem. Horrible weather the whole week.
Going to Sydney on Thursday - 06.00 is the flight - and I'm drinking Wednesday night. Sah-weet!
Going to Sydney on Thursday - 06.00 is the flight - and I'm drinking Wednesday night. Sah-weet!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Back to life.
This will be short, again. Sorry.
Hike went well, although it was a different hike than planned. We were meant to go to Federation Peak, but went instead to the Tasman National Park instead and it was planned it would be 3 day hike, and only turned out to be a 1 night because it was so easy, and wet. Very wet. So wet we encountered leeches. I had four little bastards on me! But it was fun non-the-less. Video coming soon I hope.
Anyway, going to the Walls of Jerusalem most likely on Wednesday, by myself though, and plan to be there for about 6 days. Don't worry, I'll have an EPIRB on me (GPS emergency beacon) for if something horribly wrong happens. But I'm planning for about 8 days. So heavy pack.
Will be heading to Sydney on the 15th, where I'll be able to post some photos and hopefully some videos too.
Till then, c'ya later!
Hike went well, although it was a different hike than planned. We were meant to go to Federation Peak, but went instead to the Tasman National Park instead and it was planned it would be 3 day hike, and only turned out to be a 1 night because it was so easy, and wet. Very wet. So wet we encountered leeches. I had four little bastards on me! But it was fun non-the-less. Video coming soon I hope.
Anyway, going to the Walls of Jerusalem most likely on Wednesday, by myself though, and plan to be there for about 6 days. Don't worry, I'll have an EPIRB on me (GPS emergency beacon) for if something horribly wrong happens. But I'm planning for about 8 days. So heavy pack.
Will be heading to Sydney on the 15th, where I'll be able to post some photos and hopefully some videos too.
Till then, c'ya later!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Report from the frontlines
Very brief summary:
Last day of work is on Saturday
Caught a 3-5kg rainbow trout (photos will follow)
Sold my D40 and big backpack
Going to hike Federation Peak on Tahune Airwalk
Flying back to Sydney mid-March to get a job and play paintball
Sleeping in an A-Van trailer, mint
I'm happy about everything
Semi-excited already about coming to visit you guys in Sweden
That's it, time to go to bed, see ya!
Last day of work is on Saturday
Caught a 3-5kg rainbow trout (photos will follow)
Sold my D40 and big backpack
Going to hike Federation Peak on Tahune Airwalk
Flying back to Sydney mid-March to get a job and play paintball
Sleeping in an A-Van trailer, mint
I'm happy about everything
Semi-excited already about coming to visit you guys in Sweden
That's it, time to go to bed, see ya!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Rainy Day
Today, to my surprise, it started to rain, and so now I can't work and the owners have let us come to their house to do some laundry, take showers, use the internet, and just relax in a house, and not in a cramp tent/caravan. Speaking of tents, I crawled into mine the other day and realized that I had to clean it up and thought that it was some what funny. Why? Because, I've been in my tent for so long now that I've started to treat it like it's my apartment (read: messy) and I'm pretty sure not a whole lot of people get to thinking that they may need to clean up their tent. Usually you spend one or two nights in it, pack up, and move on. Yeah, anyway, ending that subject.
New camera is bloody amazing! It's got heaps of features which will allow me to take (and already taken) some interesting photos. Before, I would ask salesmen/friends what the difference is between a D40 and a D90, and I would just get the answer: a lot. And that never really clarified what I could do with the other camera. But now that I have it, I fully understand what they were talking about! It's awesome. However, there are a lot of options on it, the learning curve is there, I just don't know how steep it is. But I am very glad that I had the D40, cause now I have a pretty good grasp of the theoretical/practical side of photography. But there is still much to learn! And oddly enough, I've taken a big interest in cloud formations lately, they're pretty spectactular down here (hard to photograph though).
On another note, I've been doing some prunning of the trees, not too exciting, but it's money and pretty chill. Also bought a real Aussie hat the other day (made in Fiji), so I'll try and post some photos of that for you guys!
And we did a road trip over to the East coast of Tasmania to Wine Glass Bay, which was pretty awesome. While the others went to check out the beach, I decided to cruise around by myself, and ended up doing some bouldering, which I must say was incredibly stoopid of me, but it was bloody amazing! I video taped a bit of it (in HD! Yay D90!) I did one climb which was through some really tight spaces, and another one where if I messed up, I think I would of needed a helicopter to take me to hospital. Why did I do all this? Why not. I'm in Australia, I wanted to do something a bit more off the beaten track (while on the beaten track), and it was worth! Best of all, doing it bare foot. I feel like I get so much better control while bare foot than any other way.
To conclude this blog entry, I will give you some photos that I've taken with my new camera! Not edited might I add, HAHA! Sorry, won't post the videos, need to compress them. Aight, catch ya later!
New camera is bloody amazing! It's got heaps of features which will allow me to take (and already taken) some interesting photos. Before, I would ask salesmen/friends what the difference is between a D40 and a D90, and I would just get the answer: a lot. And that never really clarified what I could do with the other camera. But now that I have it, I fully understand what they were talking about! It's awesome. However, there are a lot of options on it, the learning curve is there, I just don't know how steep it is. But I am very glad that I had the D40, cause now I have a pretty good grasp of the theoretical/practical side of photography. But there is still much to learn! And oddly enough, I've taken a big interest in cloud formations lately, they're pretty spectactular down here (hard to photograph though).
On another note, I've been doing some prunning of the trees, not too exciting, but it's money and pretty chill. Also bought a real Aussie hat the other day (made in Fiji), so I'll try and post some photos of that for you guys!
And we did a road trip over to the East coast of Tasmania to Wine Glass Bay, which was pretty awesome. While the others went to check out the beach, I decided to cruise around by myself, and ended up doing some bouldering, which I must say was incredibly stoopid of me, but it was bloody amazing! I video taped a bit of it (in HD! Yay D90!) I did one climb which was through some really tight spaces, and another one where if I messed up, I think I would of needed a helicopter to take me to hospital. Why did I do all this? Why not. I'm in Australia, I wanted to do something a bit more off the beaten track (while on the beaten track), and it was worth! Best of all, doing it bare foot. I feel like I get so much better control while bare foot than any other way.
To conclude this blog entry, I will give you some photos that I've taken with my new camera! Not edited might I add, HAHA! Sorry, won't post the videos, need to compress them. Aight, catch ya later!
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