Feeding a Lorikeet on the balcony...for those who know how much I hate birds flying near me, this was a huge thing for me to do!! I wouldn't let it stand on my hand, but it ate out of it! They are amazing birds up close, so many different colours.
Brad feeding two of them out of his hands....
So far things are going really well here. The weather has been a bit wet but at least it's warm (sure beats those -30 temps!). I've really upped my running mileage and have no pain so far (it was hard for me to even write that down, so knock on all the wood around you after you read that!!). The swimming is going well too, I still get beat by the little kids in the surf swims, but I try to keep up as best I can!Here are a few things I've learned since I've been here:
- 'showers' means: torrential downpours for 10min every hour or so, very fun on a group bike ride!
- being the first one running in the national park forrest means: you get to clear out all the new spider webs...yuck!
- the spiders here are huge....especially the 'little ones' in the bathroom!
- 'tea' means: dinner, who knew?
- 'flat' ocean means: waves that are actually manageable for me to body surf...normally I get dumped into the sand!
- 'fine' means (referring to the weather): a mainly sunny day
- Goanna's are: apparently harmless giant lizard things...still scare the crap out of me when I see them on the path!
Anyway, I have a small community sprint triathlon (400m/15k/4k) in a place called Caloundra next weekend and then Richard is joining me on Feb 11th! Should be fun! We are staying in a townhouse in Sunshine beach (close to the pool), so I'll be moving places next weekend too! My internet access will be a little limited but I will try to get an update on after the race!
Thanks to the Dalrymples for all the hospitality over the last month!
Later,
LM
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