Adventure Trips - Goa Day Trips, Scuba diving, watersports, Boat Trips, dudhsagar waterfall, snorkeling and more
In this episode we discuss The Watchmen Movie and Comics, from what we liked, disliked and what differs between the materials. Before all that we discuss the news of a bunch of release dates, some new trailers, Nintendo entering the mobile market and why Genndy Tartakovsky can’t catch a break it seems. We also geek about some Hollywood Husbands, Legend of Zelda, a lot of Transformers and even Glee.
Touring Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, by 4×4 is a VERY popular activity in Australia. The gist of it is to either hire your own 4-wheel drive vehicle and camp out in tents on the island for a few nights, or take a guided tour and let someone else do the driving. I opted to go with The Fraser Experience which was mentioned in The Lonely Planet. The groups are small – 14 people – and you cruise around in a gigantic truck, spending the night in an island resort.
As our guide, Neil, gassed up our truck, I saw a caravan of SUV's pass by on their way to the island. Self-drive tours are cheaper, and thus the most common approach for young backpackers. I felt a twinge of envy. They would have a sense of fulfillment I might be missing out on by paying a bit extra for a guide and such. And then I saw our guide plow past a traffic jam of these SUV's a few minutes after we landed on the island. And then I was thankful we'd have a roof over our heads when it started to pour rain (which lasted both days of the trip).
We spent the first morning driving up the beach, which despite the rain, was quite brilliant. Our big truck was faster than the little ones, though there wasn't much traffic on the island. The views were rather drab given the rain. We stopped at the resort for lunch, where I saw my first goana (lounging outside the ladies room).
After lunch, we headed farther up the beach to Indian Head Point, which required a bit of a climb. We passed a section of trees which were filled with heaps of Golden Orb spiders. Welcome to my nightmare! It was fascinating and disturbing. They were everywhere, yet I understood them to be fairly harmless.
At the end of the day, we had a buffet dinner at the resort, and a few drinks at the beach bar. Our guide played a game with us by roping me with the tall blonde English nanny in our group. We tried our best to figure out the solution to untangling ourselves with no luck. I wasn't complaining though!
I entered a casual pool tournament, beating one of the organizers (who had his own cue stick) in the first round, though losing my second game by a good bit. A few of my tour mates had stayed out extra late to cheer me on.
Looks like you are having fun!!! Seems like you are meeting a lot of people, I have no idea, but – is this part of the Backpacking social scene? Very nice photo Albums! I have enjoyed going thru them. I’ve also been following along on Google Earth… It helps me understand the places you go, and write about…
Hey Skip – the socializing is a big part of the backpacking experience. It’s one of the aspects I really enjoy, though there are some downsides too. I can spend a little more time writing about that part of the trip since you’re curious.
I’m trying to keep up on Google Earth, though the coordinates tend to be in the general vicinity of the cities I stay, not necessarily pinpoint accurate as I’d like. I didn’t want to carry around a GPS unit though!
I arrived in Sydney yesterday, and it’s got so much going on, I don’t know how I can take it all in over 5 days. I’m not going to rush myself though. I wrap up Australia with 4 nights in Melbourne so stay tuned for the city life! :)
I’d love to hear about the social scene… If and when I ever do my trip, I’m a lot older than you, and I might not be that interested in that scene (or that scene might not be that interested in me). Either way, I’m interested in hearing about it, because you probably will not read much about it anywhere else.
Google earth is awesome!!! I was able to zero in on Frazer Island, and see 4×4 going up and down the beach!
I second Skip’s comment, it’d be great to learn some more about the backpacking scene. I’ve done some casual trips, but was never truly able to ‘break into’ the backpacking scene. Perhaps I’m too introverted. What tips would you suggest?
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Monday was Texas governor Rick Perry’s first full day on the campaign trail and he spent it in Iowa where Michele Bachman and Ron Paul won the Iowa Straw Poll.
One bystander asked Perry if he became president what would he do with the Federal Reserve. After some prodding, Perry drew aim on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke when he said:
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas…Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, or treasonous, in my opinion.”
Quantitative easing means that a central bank creates new electronic money which is used to purchase government and corporate debt. By buying up the debt, the bank is attempting to keep the banking industry lending money and to help keep the cost of borrowing money at a lower level.
Perry has already come under criticism for his remarks. Former deputy press secretary to President George W. Bush, Tony Fratto called Perry’s remarks “inappropriate and unpresidential.”
I want to know what’s so inappropriate for a person, including a presidential candidate to speak their mind and call treason – treason?
If anyone is allowed to exercise their First Amendment right of free speech it should be the president or someone running for the office.
America is tired of political leaders who pussy foot around issues and people for fear of being politically incorrect or overly harsh. Politicians need to stop tap dancing around the issues and face them head on. Stop putting the blame on others and offer viable solutions to fix the problems.
Sure some people are going to be offended, but that’s part of living in a republic where we have the right to speak the truth.