The Sun shall be blotted from the sky!

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Trilby

What can I say? I just don't like muck.

I'm with Tribly on this one. I can deal with muck if I have to, but that's not a lake you are swimming in, that's a swamp. You need a machete to swim through that stuff.

Of course, if it's really hot, you don't have much choice.

[glatt]

How did you take that picture, anyway? The self timer on my camera is either 2 seconds or 10 seconds. If you set yours for 10 seconds, you would need to run into the shot, and then there would be a trail behind you in the water of ripples and bubbles, and disturbed plants. It looks like you took a minute or two to get to where you are in the water, everything is so still.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by glatt

How did you take that picture, anyway? The self timer on my camera is either 2 seconds or 10 seconds. If you set yours for 10 seconds, you would need to run into the shot, and then there would be a trail behind you in the water of ripples and bubbles, and disturbed plants. It looks like you took a minute or two to get to where you are in the water, everything is so still.

I think he said he had it on automatic, taking a pic every 30 seconds

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

How did you take that picture, anyway? The self timer on my camera is either 2 seconds or 10 seconds. If you set yours for 10 seconds, you would need to run into the shot, and then there would be a trail behind you in the water of ripples and bubbles, and disturbed plants. It looks like you took a minute or two to get to where you are in the water, everything is so still.

do you have a canon point and shoot? maybe not... I think I remember you are a panasonic man. chdk is the friend of canon p/s owners everywhere. intervalometer plus beaucoup more

[infinite monkey]

Zen, you are the gummiest!

wait...Zen, you are the Zenniest!

Just. Wow. Dude.

Yeah, that's me, enjoy it.

Told ya! James Franco!

[infinite monkey]

See, that wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Especially after delving in to the foot locker.

[infinite monkey]

Oh fine. I confess. I was there.

[ZenGum]

Spex and Infi have it. Auto camera, I'm cool with mud, and yeah, , you know. In that photo, I had already been in and under, parting the lily roots with my hands as I went; by this time I was coming back, and turned to face the sun.

Other areas of the dam were much clearer. I think they even did the sand-dump trick at the main swimming point.

[footfootfoot]

I somehow lost my CHDK card and I'm too cheap/stubborn to go out and buy a new one, but I really miss the features. Maybe I'll go out and get another one.

But it drives me bats that I can't find the other one. Probably got vacuumed up.

[infinite monkey]

Preventive medicine: stop vacuuming.

[Trilby]

The moon is a lock of witch's hair-
golden and tawny and red
and the night wind stops to stare
to see a lock of a witches head.

[ZenGum]

Well, the next day was all about recovery, naps, journal writing, and swimming.

The day after, I felt it was time to move on. I was a little sad to be leaving, possibly related to the come-down from all that shit I did.
I packed up, gave a hitch-hiker a lift to the next main town, but didn't want to plunge back into the hectic mayhem of a big city, like Cairns with its 200,000 people.

I wanted to go camping in a national park, of which I know there are many in the area, but all the information I got was that the old turn-up-and-self-register system has been replaced by some stupid shit involving an account, pre-booking, internet, phone calls and credit cards.

So, I found my way to a private nature park where I paid cash and spent a few days. The mountains here are granite, and there was a stream to swim in, although with better pools than this one.



There are plenty of wallabies here, carefully trained to manipulate tourists into buying bags of wallaby food. I didn't, sod 'em, little buggers should get jobs.



After two nights here, I went to Cairns, stopping on the way at this touristy waterfall (this is the end of the dry season, give it three months and this would be roaring).



I also stopped at Kuranda, a village that has become the hippy location of the north. The markets there sell everything with rainbows, every kind of hemp product (except, you know, the real one), crystals, clothing, etc. Even "diet soap" - "the more you wash with it, the thinner it gets!" They have a mini-golf course in the rainforest.

I bought lunch here, the hippy interpretation of eggs on toast, here named a "breakfast crepe". Ok, Sundae, this is for you:



With the home-made lemonade it came to $20, a bit pricey, but !! There's fried mushrooms in there as well.

[glatt]

that's beautiful country!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, some of the nicest pictures I've seen.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

After two nights here, I went to Cairns, stopping on the way at this touristy waterfall (this is the end of the dry season, give it three months and this would be roaring).

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Oh and while I'm here ...