Hannah and Nate in OZ

OK first just know never go to Fraser Island January Through March! .. …. INsect haven. We began the trip in Hervey Bay at Friendly’s  Hostel, when we arrived someone said “wow!, look at all those bats” .. “where are they goin?” ..”Fraser Island” , ofcoarse. .. So we met some Scotish travelers at the hostel who just got back from Fraser, and said they were attacked by Mosquitos .. and… wait for it… 2.5 cm. lg Marsh Flies/ otherwise know as Bloodsucking bastards that are attracted to EVERYTHING! including Mosquito spray.  we were swarmed to the point whre we couldn’t even hang out at camp during the day. we had to eat/pack all at night when the flies fell asleep. most the time we made sandwiches in the car or tent.  At One point I made a drink run and was attacked by hundreds all at once, in a few of the pictures you will see us waving swatters to tally our points.  Besides the Giant bloodsucking flies, we also spoted a dangerous centipede hiding under KC’s and My tent, Giant spiders, Dingos, many crabs, and ofcoarse the ‘flying fox’ bats. SO with a full day of rain, and setting up camp on day one, and with all the Marsh flies.. we really felt like we had an adventure upon us.. then it happened. Day 3 we were off to the ‘Aquarium’ or Champagne pools. we arrived there at a near high tide and the waves were massive rollers beating against the rock wall. watching them crash, KC needed to get a little closer. After a few waves crashing on the pools wall.. and him holding onto some rocks it looked like it was all good fun getting rained on by the giant foam fallout. , being protected by the many ragged rocks ofcoarse, then came the true test. A new set. Wave one hit, and put KC in the crouching position…still holding onto the rock in front of him, and before he could re-think his strategy wave 2 revealed its face in stand up position. Crushing the barrier rocks in front of KC, and plowing through left KC missing for about 3 seconds. Magically appearing about 20 feet behind his first position curled up inbetween a couple of rocks. Once helping him up and truely seeing what happened we noticed his arm and legs took a beating. most damage to his shoulder. We found an ambulance on the island and arranged his lift back to the mainland, our first opportunity to get off the island was the next morning. . Once we got back to Hervey bay we met up with KC back at Friendly’s to find 10 fresh staples in his shoulder upon other bandages and repairs. All and all it was quite the adventure.  Oh by the way he was smiling the whole time.. and ofcoarse while we were cleaning up his arm with the swarms of marsh flies attacking.. We feel stronger coming back from Fraser, and we are thankful to be home, especially KC.  Here are the pictures to prove it…well most of it.

These pictures are from our week long trip to the Whitsunday Islands with Zee and Maryann, we earned our scuba certification to 18m ( 60 feet ) while on the Great Barrier reef and Whitsunday Islands. The sights were amazing and we met some good friends along the way. We had a great scuba instructor - Harry , very patient and thorough, as well as a great Skipper - Basa , he loved to sail and never sleeps.  So we had the opportunity to explore some of the outer reef, and some amazing dive sites. Such as Bait Reef, Line Reef, Blue Pearl Bay, Luncheon Bay, Hook Island, Whithaven Beach - where the sand is 98% Silicon , the pureset sand on earth.. You can use it to exfoliate, polish your jewelery, and its even used for the lens on the huble Telescope. Hopefully soon I will upload the underwater pictures.. just need to get them developed. We Miss you guys back home! enjoy the pictures.  Oh and a special congrats to Rick and Jamie.. the newest newlyweds!

We made it to the great Fraser Island, the Largest Sand Dune Island in the world. The ‘cinqo dingos’ as we coined our selves w/ our island names: Big Fart no Chief ( Mark ), VB wanna make a plan ( Kevin ), One who zips alot ( Sean ), He who hates food ( Nate ), and last but not least to round off the cinqo dingos - Big Chief little fart ( Hannah ) . This island was one of the most amazing experiences for all of us. We embarked on a 3 day - 2 night camping trip just the five of us. Rented a 4wd vehicle and camping equip and set off. We met many animals including a couple dingos that checked out our camp on night 2, and huge possums and rats on night one. Spiders/mozzies/fish/ and birds were not in short supply either. Here are a few of our pics w/ captions.. also going to try and put some video up of the downright difficult 4wd driving required on this Island.

Met up with Hannah after her Music Therapy conference in Sydney for a couple of days. Also bumped into our friend Ben Hammond. hope you like the pics. Heres a small selection. We visited Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, The Sydney harbor, The rocks ( historical district), and Darling harbor. The place we were recommended for amazing fish and chips on the harbor edge.

some pictures that I like from the recent days.. from exploring the town of clevland ( where they are currently filming the next Narnia, to the town of Tweed heads. )

We made it to Queensland Exhibition horse-race day, and had a blast drinking cheap beer and routing on 1$ tickets! Had a really good day and night, check out the highlights.

SO Hannah and I, and some friends from our Church set out for a 50k walk from inland to sea. We made it about 3/4 of the way before our legs wouldnt let us go any further, who knew u had to stretch before walking. We made is somewhere around 35 k, but made it to the sea! The next couple days we spent recovering with brews and sun.