Monday, June 14, 2010

The Story of our Lives!

Look at these beautiful studious faces!



Trust me, like Rayna's original caption said, we only LOOK happy; It's been the story of our lives for the past 2 weeks-study, study, study. I finally finished my last exam on Saturday morning, and am just recovering from my extended lack of sleep.
Sighhh, my time down under is coming to an end much too quickly; I've met so many amazing people, 2 of them, Ari from Germany and my RA, left yesterday and today, and another one, Shane, leaves tomorrow for a summer experience in Indonesia. Where are the tissues? I really am excited to go home though and see my other friends and family, it will just be hard leaving initially.
Everyone is completely done with exams on Friday so we'll have a bit of fun partying it up on Friday night before I leave for Cairns with some friends early Saturday morning; I'll then be leaving for the states out of Townsville on Monday and be back in NC Tuesday morning. This week is a pretty low-key one, hanging out with people (and watching amazing movies like 'Finding Nemo'...), finishing up my last 3 work shifts, and doing all the little last minute things.
The last week in May I went on a weekend field trip to the Townsville tablelands; we did quite alot of traveling-around 1,000 Ks or around 700 miles-in a short time period so we were pretty beat when we got back; I did enjoy the camping aspect and we got to see several cool sites.


Our first stop at the Reid River


Our campsite at Fletcher Creek


The area west of Townsville always reminds me of the African Savannah, it's pretty in its own way


Fletcher Creek


I had alot of fun getting some closeups of the bridge across Fletcher












Getting in a creek bath











One of my favorite sites at Red Falls


Crossing all of this to get to the other side was interesting





My second favorite site at Mt. Fox-a scoria cone volcanic landform; you can see the caldera that's formed around it








It doesn't look like much but we climbed all the way to the top and it was vertical the whole way up, we were huffing and puffing like champs

I'll post some pics next time of the little venture I took with Rayna and Mel to a garden in Townsville that provided some study time, nap time, and picture time :)

2 comments:

bethany said...

wow! You're quite the photographer! Do you have like a photo editing thing on your computer? I don't edit or really change my pics that I take yet, but I would like to do more with them...any suggestions?

Can't believe we missed you! Hope to see you back on the OBX soon. Felicity can't wait to meet you! Love ya!

givinittogod247 said...

I love messing around with photos :) I don't have an editing thing, I have a mac which has iphoto on it, and I just use the editing capabilities available in there-really basic stuff. Advice that has served me well is to just experiment! Do you have anything already loaded on your computer? Also, I'm thinking about taking a photography class at a community college so that might be an idea, I know you can even do some online.

I cannot believe Felicity is already a month old! She is so precious and Lucy-Kate looks like a fabulous big sister :) I'll let you know when I'm on the OBX next so I can catch up with you guys. Love ya too!