we're in ulladulla right now, a cute little beachside town south of sydney, sleeping in a real bed (hoorah!), thanks to damo's friends, tony and jo. tony is a wine buff so we drank lots of kick ass wine last night and celebrated the day after my birthday (happy birthday me!). after this contact with the world over via internet, we're going to hit the beach again in our attempt to get rid of our sun reflecting pale white skin!
the past weekend was spent in canberra, the nation's capital. it's this neat designed city so it's full of green spaces (in theory, but was bone dry so they were all brown spaces), random public art and beautiful or weird buildings.
highlight: war memorial--a big, thorough, interesting, spectacular museum covering all of australia's involvement in what seems to be every major conflict in the past two hundred years.
lowlight: we chose the one weekend that sees canberra host a souped up car festival. we ended up on a crowded tent field in a caravan park with rowdies, young and old, who partied and revved their engines ALL night long. by night three we were cranky with no sleep.
wildlife update: damo killed a big ass spider outside the tent--probably a non-venomous huntsman but we didn't know at the time. damo tried to shoo it away but it reared up and tried to attack the twig (!!) he was using so he smooshed it under his shoe. we're reading a book on aussie's most dangerous animals so are in a heighted state of paranoia right now with anything creeping, crawling or swimming. we've seen a white tip spider in the bathroom of a friend's house already.
lots more to write about--it was australia's hottest new year's day on record (45.5 degrees outside of sydney!)--but we'll update once we hit geelong.
the nico
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You may be sickly white but I miss you guys all the same! Can't wait to hear more. Oh yah, and we'll talk about the senseless killing of spiders when you get back. :-)
I'd just like to state that the spider was most likely the 'semi-venomous' huntsman. He was also only provoked cause he was trying to crawl into bed with us. As much as I dig spiders, I dont dig sleeping with them!
To date we have seen:
1) Probable semi-venemous huntsman
2) A very venemous white tip
3) A probable venemous black window spider (looks like the red back without the red stripe)
4) An unidentified mean looking blood red spider with brownish blue abdomen - could have been a small funnel web. Most likely venemous.
That's one thing we've learned you have to be super careful with all wildlife here.
Damo
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