soooooooo this weekend we were supposed to go on a field trip with our program up to mission beach to get up to shenanigams with some aboriginal bruddahs and sistahs, do some white water rafting, and have bonfire shenanigans under the stars.  the whole field trip was supposed to go the whole weekend.  but...it only lasted friday-saturday.  we got the white water rafting down, and some artsyfartsy photos under the stars (which were pretty amazing, since there were no lights at all to outshine the stars), but our bus broke down and so we had to cut our field trip short and head back to townsville a day early.  we were not stoked at all about this babylonion move but asz y hahd ah?  anyways, since we came back to town a day early, we figured we'd go to reef HQ, the local aquarium, since we hadn't gone during orientation.  it was pretty sick, especially the predator tank.  there was some fat uluas swimming around the tank, there were two that were close to the 70-80 pound mark i think.  the girth on those things was ridiculous, they looked way too fat for their length.  they also had a huge paopao swimming around that looked around 30lbs and a big pile of menpachi uluas around 7lbs.  they also had this huge napoleon wrasse and a gigantic nurseshark lookin shark.  the aquarium also had a turtle hospital that we got to check out, but im still not convinced that those things are endangered anymore.  anyways here's the pics from the aquarium, i'm still going through the 480 pics i took with my gopro when we were whitewater rafting.  i'll try to get my friends to send me some of the pics we took of the stars, it was seriously one of the most amazing star gazing experiences i've had and we got some super sick shots on their fancy long exposures.  soooo here's part 1 of this weekend's adventures, more to come when i get inspired to go thru the load of gopro pics and pick out the good ones/edit the videos

paopao+ulua zones

red emperor...this thing looked like some good steaming

shark jaws

coral reef half of the tunnel, if you look close theres a good sized moana kali in the middle of the pile

freshwater sawfish...in a saltwater tank?  hmmmmm

more ulua+paopao zones.  check the girth on that thing

hugangous nurse shark thing.  it was easily over 8 feet, probably 4-5 foot girth.  super fatty

some kinda grouper...coral grouper?  looked good eating haha

queensland grouper skeleton

giant clam

fluorescent corals!  apparently lots of corals do this, you just can't tell in shallow waters, you gotta dive deeper to see them do this...or put them under a blacklight

oldschool scuba zones

stonefish...can you spock umz?

philip, the sick turtle

meannnn kine beer+jill creepin