- It was awesome. Best vacation ever.
- Sydneyans are unbelievably rude by American standards.
- Australian rules public transportation boarding is fun.
- The only country I've ever been to where globs of people start off Sunday with a couple of pints (or schooners for that matter).
- The NSW police breathalized everyone on a main road at 10.30am on a Tuesday!!!
- Pie Floaters make awesome breakfast food.
- It's prawns on a barbie fer chrissakes.
- Ketchup is called tomatoe sauce.
- Aussies put sun dried tomatoes in everything.
- Barramundi rocks.
- Port Douglas had a $2 beer night in honor of Elvis' death.
- Pie Floaters are awesome hangover food.
- They ask you if you have a hangover before they let you dive.
- Getting into a damp wetsuit in 53 degree/30 knot weather blows the big one.
- You can get sunburn under water if you wear a shorty.
- Diving with a hangover can lead to amazing nausea.
- Parrotfish poop sand.
- Ayers Rock is a huge rock.
- Ayers Rock sunsets look better in pictures than life. Even my pictures.
- I was there on the last day you were allowed to drink at Ayers Rock.
- Alice Springs is in the middle of fracking nowhere.
- Melbourne feels like Canada.
- QVM is beyond awesome.
- Drinking coffee in the butcher aisle trickles a gag reflex.
- One can deep fry meat pies.
- Kangaroo doesn't taste like chicken.
- Croc does.
- Footy players look unbelievably buff.
- Footy fans get unbelievably drunk.
- Most drunk Australians are easier to understand than sober ones.
- Rugby fans can spend hours explaining the differences between Rugby League rules and Rugby Union rules.
- Rugby fans can out drink Footy fans.
- Aussie can end every sentence with "no worries mate" without cracking up.
- The South Pacific smells totally different than the North Pacific.
- Australian Outback in the winter can be frigging cold.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Australia pics and 35 other thoughts
I put my unedited Australia pictures up on Google. I'll probably comment more on the trip, but here are some random thoughts:
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