Backpacking

I can do that all on my own. I went on whats called a 'canyon swing'. Yeah, I just keep looking for ways to nearly kill myself. It was pretty exilerating.

About to jump off...

Jumping off...

Near the bottom...

There was another Canadian girl jumping, Julie from Vancouver.
We're the Official Canadian Canyon Jumping Team.

I saw this, and I was like "Did you have a bad experience with a Canadian or something? But they said its because we can laugh at stuff like that and not take it seriously. Thats why they did it.

In other news, it looks like its starting to clear up here. It was pretty miserable in the morning, but it cleared up for the afternoon. We saw a rainbow today.

Not much else is new. I'm heading off at 7 tomorrow morning for Mount Cook. Then back to Christchurch and then Japan! I bought my ticket to Beijing. But I haven't even had my visa application dropped off yet, so I everyone cross your fingers for me! I'm looking at tickets from Beijing to Toronto (The one in Canada, for those of who are thinking of the one in NSW). Sigh... Its all coming to a close. But that only means I'm closer to my next overseas adventure. Which will be New Zealand in the summer (November).

Oh, and EMAIL ME. I like knowing what the rest of the world is up to.

See ya.

AC

I'm at Bondi Beach right now. Its absolutely gorgeous. the water is bright azure and the sand is so nice. At the beach back home (Toronto, for the peeps in cyber space who don't know me), they're covered in pepples and glass and junk. Not Bondi, pure sand. I don't want to leave this beach. Its that perfect. Earlier today, I went to Sydney Wildlife World.
We don't have too many kuala bears and kangaroos back home. So its nice to see that. One thing that I could have done without are the employees that walk around with snakes and lizards (with their bare hands!) and ask you to pet them. I'd like to keep my fingers attached to my body, thank you.

One really good thing about Sydney (well, two to be exact) are the public parks. One I go to in the morning to jog is Hyde Park. Its right in downtown Sydney which is perfect because its right by my hostel. Another one is the Royal Botanic Garden. It houses many exotic plants and animals and landscapes (well, not exotic to Australians).

One of the more creepy indiginous creatures are Flying Foxes, aka BATS!
Now I don't recall ever seeing a bat up close before. So its a little unnerving when you look up and there are like 200 hanging right above you.

I'm going to go to Blue Mountain tomorrow. But right now, I have to apply my 13th layer of sunscreen.

Cheers

AC

Hey guys.

I've started the job hunting. Time to fulfil the 'working' part of 'working holiday'. I applied to work at a vinyard in Victoria (another Australian province). Should be cool. I'm hoping to get jobs that I could never get anywhere else in the world. Kangaroo walker or Walabee groomer or something. We'll see what happens.

See ya.

AC

I spent the whole day getting some formalites, well, fomalized. I got my passport labeled by the department of immigration, looked into a bank to set up an Australian account, bought a flag patch to sew onto my backpack (which may have to replace in the future as there is less and less room for more flags)and such and such, I went to the Sydney Opera House. Its quite a spectacuar feat in architecture. The arcitect that designed the CN tower is Australian. I saw some guy talking about it on Breakfast Television a few days ago.

Well, until next time.

Cheers

AC