My take on life.
Moving right along
Updates first: The ice melted and it continued to rain all day, and it actually was warmer when I was walking home from the bus at midnight than it was when I was walk to school at noon that day. Rather odd.
Almost as odd as waking up the next morning to a white a fluffy snow covered world right after. Now it's snowing all the time, but it's not coming down too hard so it's not too bad. Good packing snow though, I miss being a kid. Oh well, I guess life just sucks like that.
Anyways, you're probably wanting that lost entry now, so here goes.
These are the Blue Mountains.
They are called the blue mountains because they are... yes, blue. At least the air around them has this constant blue haze in them. It's from all the trees in the area reacting to the air and I don't really care, it's just pretty and it isn't poisonous so win/win!
Naturally the images can't actually capture the scope of the scenery quite right, so it just looks like a neat litte set of cliffs and stuff, but I assure you it was very pretty. Lots of lookout points that were just sheer cliff faces and the like. Oh and FLIES! OH GOD THE FLIES!
Forget all the dangerous animals and poisonous crap they tell you about the Australian wildlife, it all means NOTHING once you get attacked by the most annoying flies on the Earth. I'm serious. The flies up here for whatever reason like to fly around your head and go buzz buzz and you shoo them away and whatever, but OH NO, that's not good enough for these flies. Instead of just flying around you and being annoying, these flies have invented a way to drive people INSANE. All they want to do is fly straight at you and land on your face. Or in your ear. Or up your nose. Never mind your arms or shoulders or anything, they just go for the annoying parts. And it gets better too; if you go to swat them away, they're very well practiced at simply flying around your hand and landing right back on your face. Just one of these flies can get very aggravating, but just wait till 15 of them decide to maul you. I wonder if anyone has just run right off the cliffs trying to get away from them?
...Wait a minute. If they did that, they'd be dead at the bottom of the cliff and all the flies could feast on them uninterrupted! Oh my god I'm on to something here, they're trying to kill us all. ): It's actually kinda freaky that I came up with that, as the place with the most flies was the place with the least railings on the cliff edges. Scary :s
I really like this shot for some reason. It's the blue mountains again, but from a different location. This might be from when I took a ragged trail down the mountainside in pursuit of a scenic spectacle. It worked out prtty good, and I got at least 20 feet before the trail just turned to some different looking ground going through dense foliage, I wanted to go a little more but the threat of death by either spiders snakes or a rocky cliff bottom kept me from going. I also didn't feel like crawling through the plant life without a machete, so I just went back. Got some nice pictures though. That's right, I risk my life just so I can bring the people some things to look at and say 'oh neat'. I'm just that great. ;)
Since I seem to be on the topic of pretty scenery this time, I figured I should throw this one in as well. A tropical beach? Oh hells yea! It was very pretty, and be sure to check out the other 2 in that set (just change the number in the file name) for a few more perspectives. This was a kinda neat beach, as the sand was pretty dense and solid under your feet, but it was still sand, and the trees all around it made it quite nice to look at. It's be a great place to hang out and swim at if not for two things:
a) it's a popular stop for lots of tour groups, so there are always people moving through there
b) there are very dangerous jellyfish living in the waters there, and the picture on the sign is enough to keep me out of the waters. Those things look hungry.
Oh, the other neat thing about this place was that right on the other side of the beach was a small forest of mangrove trees. You can't have a tropical beach without a kickin wicked external root system based plant formation. Anyways, I think that about wraps it up for today, remember: enjoy the snow!
Almost as odd as waking up the next morning to a white a fluffy snow covered world right after. Now it's snowing all the time, but it's not coming down too hard so it's not too bad. Good packing snow though, I miss being a kid. Oh well, I guess life just sucks like that.
Anyways, you're probably wanting that lost entry now, so here goes.
These are the Blue Mountains.
They are called the blue mountains because they are... yes, blue. At least the air around them has this constant blue haze in them. It's from all the trees in the area reacting to the air and I don't really care, it's just pretty and it isn't poisonous so win/win!
Naturally the images can't actually capture the scope of the scenery quite right, so it just looks like a neat litte set of cliffs and stuff, but I assure you it was very pretty. Lots of lookout points that were just sheer cliff faces and the like. Oh and FLIES! OH GOD THE FLIES!
Forget all the dangerous animals and poisonous crap they tell you about the Australian wildlife, it all means NOTHING once you get attacked by the most annoying flies on the Earth. I'm serious. The flies up here for whatever reason like to fly around your head and go buzz buzz and you shoo them away and whatever, but OH NO, that's not good enough for these flies. Instead of just flying around you and being annoying, these flies have invented a way to drive people INSANE. All they want to do is fly straight at you and land on your face. Or in your ear. Or up your nose. Never mind your arms or shoulders or anything, they just go for the annoying parts. And it gets better too; if you go to swat them away, they're very well practiced at simply flying around your hand and landing right back on your face. Just one of these flies can get very aggravating, but just wait till 15 of them decide to maul you. I wonder if anyone has just run right off the cliffs trying to get away from them?
...Wait a minute. If they did that, they'd be dead at the bottom of the cliff and all the flies could feast on them uninterrupted! Oh my god I'm on to something here, they're trying to kill us all. ): It's actually kinda freaky that I came up with that, as the place with the most flies was the place with the least railings on the cliff edges. Scary :s
I really like this shot for some reason. It's the blue mountains again, but from a different location. This might be from when I took a ragged trail down the mountainside in pursuit of a scenic spectacle. It worked out prtty good, and I got at least 20 feet before the trail just turned to some different looking ground going through dense foliage, I wanted to go a little more but the threat of death by either spiders snakes or a rocky cliff bottom kept me from going. I also didn't feel like crawling through the plant life without a machete, so I just went back. Got some nice pictures though. That's right, I risk my life just so I can bring the people some things to look at and say 'oh neat'. I'm just that great. ;)
Since I seem to be on the topic of pretty scenery this time, I figured I should throw this one in as well. A tropical beach? Oh hells yea! It was very pretty, and be sure to check out the other 2 in that set (just change the number in the file name) for a few more perspectives. This was a kinda neat beach, as the sand was pretty dense and solid under your feet, but it was still sand, and the trees all around it made it quite nice to look at. It's be a great place to hang out and swim at if not for two things:
a) it's a popular stop for lots of tour groups, so there are always people moving through there
b) there are very dangerous jellyfish living in the waters there, and the picture on the sign is enough to keep me out of the waters. Those things look hungry.
Oh, the other neat thing about this place was that right on the other side of the beach was a small forest of mangrove trees. You can't have a tropical beach without a kickin wicked external root system based plant formation. Anyways, I think that about wraps it up for today, remember: enjoy the snow!
posted by Kraven | 1/18/2006 09:02:00 PM
2 Comments:
Awww, poor little flies! Nobody likes them.
Maybe if they took baths and could sing they'd be more popular.
God really needs an advisor on these kind of matters.
The flies weren't as bad as when I went to the Outback, now THAT was bad. There were twice as many flies as there were up on that cliff.
Oh and for those of you wanting a different view, here's my perspective of the beach. :)
I'll be posting about that part of our trip in the very near future.
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