yay for procrastination!!  i reallyreallyreally don't wanna be working on my research paper right now, so i figured, hey why not update my blog so i feel somewhat productive while still not doing anything worthwhile!!  great idea right??  hahaha sooo anyways, this weekends been kinda slow.  friday i went over to maggie with an aussie friend who's into diving fishing hunting camping...basicallly he's an aussie version of me, only he can handle being around amphibians.  anyways, the plan was to dive and try grab some spiny lobsters (they call um crayfish) cuz theres apparently tons in the rocks on the edge of horseshoe bay.  of course, since this is me we're talking about, the plan didn't work out too well, since there was about 4 feet of visibility.  i was wearing florescent yellow fins, and i could barely see the tips of my fins thru the water.  soooo basically, you would dive to the bottom (which you couldn't ever see) and try to find a cave, and once you found one, you'd have to stick your head all the way inside to have any hope of seeing anything.  sooo after about 30-40 mins of this, we got tired of feeling like shark bait and went in.  keep in mind, this is the bay where we saw the 8ft tiger hooked on the shark trap last time i came to maggie, so the jaws theme song kept playing in my head the whole time we were diving.  after the dive, we hiked back to the middle of the bay and grabbed some onokine fish'n'chips, then had a fat kanak attack and passed out on the sand.  clearly, it was a productive day.  saturday we went to the townsville cultural festival, which was kinda cool too.  allkine different cultural food that was...decent i guess.  there was also a section where there was arts and crafts.  i started talking to a couple maori guys who were doing some maori woodcarvings and had some tattoo samples they did.  it was kinda weird, we were talking, and then he asked "so where you from?  hawaii?"  i kinda tripped out cuz we'd only been talking a minute or so and i wasnt even wearing a shirt that says hawaii on it.  there was also a bunch of performances from all the different cultures, the funniest was the samoan dance where one of the guys didn't have any idea what he was doing, and he was standing front and center, trying to figure out what to do by watchin everyone else.  of course he was about 2 seconds behind them, which was hilarious to watch.  k anyways...i kinda ran out of stuff to talk about and procrastinate with.  dang i wish writing my paper would be this easy.  k chutes time to attempt to be productive

horseshoebay zones.  we were diving along the rocks to the right of the pic

kanakattack zones.  hows that low tide

yes, they did have adobo.  no, they did not have balut or lumpia.

hooooo sole uce!!  shmall kine washed out by the light