East coast

Well I made it to the opposite side of the country with no problems. Got into a really nice hotel in Cairns. What's a couple bucks when you live in style? LEt me tell you about Cairns, think jungle. Very humid, and pretty dang hot, perhaps even Florida in the summer. And the rest of the coast hasn't been much better, weather wise anyway. After not much interest in Cairns, I wandered down to Townsville by way of the mountains. A great drive with switch-backs, blind turns and what not. My reward for the detour was a nice place to eat overlooking a crater lake. Unfortunately townsville wasn't any better, but who cares. Friday it was my task to get farther down the coast to Mackay. That was a bit better. Maybe because I found a Irish pub to sit at for a bit, then went on to some Mexican food. Both were fine choices. Today, saturday, I've pushed a bit farther down the road to Marysbrough. A quiet little town, not much happening and I"m very suprised to find an internet cafe, let alone an open one. Tomorrow I'll head to Brisbane or Surfers Paridise. Haven't decided yet.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. So I'm a nature killer here too. For some reason either I have some unconsious thing about birds, or they get suicidal around me. A week ago, I hit a parrot because it thought it would be a good idea to fly right infront of the car. He didn't make it. Today it was something a bit bigger. It was going after some road kill when it ran into my lane, jumped high enough to clear the grill, but not high enought to clear the hood. I got it, feathers everywhere. I saw it land about 5 seconds later in a heap off the road. I'm sure the driver going the other way had a good show.
All right, enough for now.

Guy