So nearly one week
without a post. Might happen when I start working, but for now it was
only short endeavours that I did most of the time. A few days ago I
spent an afternoon walking around Sydney, similar to what I did in
Dubai to get a felling for the town. Walked from the station through
Sydneys China district, along the piers and underneath the harbour
bridge. I watched three married couples getting their pictures taken
in front of the Opera House. Walked through the Royal Botanic Garden
with all the different types of trees and quite some birds, before
getting lost in the city. I asked a local for the quickest way to
Central Station and arrived there shortly after before taking the
train back to Springwood.
The difficult thing to
realise is that Iain doesn't directly live in Sydney. It takes close
to one and a half hours to get there by train, for Australian
conditions that is really close.
Also been slowly
starting to plan a flight up to Cairns, to maybe do some traditional
backpacker job, fruit picking. That still being in the planing
process, thought (tax file number still hasn't arrived *grumbel*).
Went out photographing the other night and caught some possums on
camera, although very grainy (the pictures). The possums are all over
the trees here. I stood on the terrace at one point and just saw
three of them in a tree.
Alexander
visited two days ago and said he was going wake boarding some time
this week. I asked if I could tag along and it ended up with us going
today. We where joined by Jeremy, a guy from Canada, who is currently
doing his year of studying in Australia. Weird, three guys in their
twentys, just the three of us spanning once around the globe. We
arrived and got all the legal stuff sorted (they mentioned that you
can die on their facility). As Alexander used to work here it made
things a lot more streamline. I was a bit nervous, as I had never
wake boarded before and was still worried a bit about my shoulder. I
did do some self inducted test the day before to see if it would
actually be painful to go into the wake boarding position. Wasn't a
problem and it wasn't a problem doing it in earnest either. I managed
until to the third corner, were they had a more than 90° angle. I
went flying from the sudden slack and the taunt of the rope. Next
round wasn't successful either, I ended up shreding my swimming
trunks somehow and bought another pair in the shop next to the area.
Apparently I got a good pair relatively cheap, too (40$). The third
time was different. I fell out at the second corner, right on the
other side of the course. Walked back all the way and finally on the
fourth round I managed it round one and a half times. Jeremy was
going in circles by the time, having nearly no problem at all. He
even started trying some tricks and jumps, but failed every time if I
recall correctly. Alexander was taking jumps nearly every time and
doing spins in the water and all. He did work here once, so he had
enough time to try it himself.
We
ended our session with some jumps from the starting point directly in
to the water. No sitting down in the water, a direct start from land.
Alexander and me managed, because the operator told us when to jump.
Jeremy wasn't so lucky and was just pulled in to the water when the
operator hooked him in.
We
left for something to eat after that and had some chicken with chips
in a place I don't know the name of any more before we just got to
the station in time for me to catch the train back to Springwood.
Next
thing I can do on my list of stuff, wake boarding.
Well done to wakeboarding! :)
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