Today it is saturday the 14th of july and it is time for the Triple Treat Adventure. As always we will do one session of snorkling, one session on White Heaven Beach and another session following the walking track up to the lookout. I have done these trips now twice a week for three months (20 + times), and it is becoming routine. But it is not routine anymore.

Last week I was leading a group of people up the walking track when suddenly appeared right next to my bare foot. normally I don't wear shoes anymore because I don't need them anymore. I jumped when I saw the snake and stepped aside. the snake started to slide away but wasn't very alarmed. It wasn't a python because it was to slender for that, but thats about where my snake skills end. Does anyone recognize this fellow?
 

anyways..
Last tuesday I went to a seminar/show about being all you can be. no, it was not staged by the recruiting office from the military. hehe. It was about living up to your potential and the guy hosting it showed us that many times fear stops us well before we really need to. He demonstrated this by breaking boards and getting people to mimic him.

He also put an arrow with the tip to his throat and broke it by walking through it. He then volunteered about six of us up on stage to do the same. And since the rest of the group took a big step back, I was the first to go. which was fine by me.

I put the tip of the arrow to my throat, focused on the eyes of the person supporting the other end of the arrow and took a big breath. I was nervous yes, but I knew I could do it. firstly I had seen that guy do just the same thing, and secondly I knew that he wouldn't get strangers to do things that would be potentially harmful. thirdly I know that I have a high threshold of pain and am able to push myself quite far. especially when my brothers are present. If they are not I can easily put them there mentally. anyway. I took a big breath and walked through the arrow. it split into three pieces and they flew across the room. Pretty cool stuff.

check out the guy's web page.

out.

I have been lagging behind on the updates here, and for that I appologize. It's not like things haven't happened. It's more the other way around. Here are a few of the things I have been up to lately.

Torkel came down here for a visit not long ago. I took him out on a snorkeling trip about an hour after he landed. It was alot of fun to show him my "office", or parts of it anyway. We went out and snorkeled and dived several times during his stay. We also went to the mainland and got drunk in Airlie Beach. We met up with my brother Björn and the fun just increased from there on. We went to Prosepine River and did a Crocodile Safari, which I thought was pretty awesome. I totally agree with the late Steve Irwin in that "Crocs Rule!"

The high light of their visit was an amazing sailing trip we did around the islands. We were part of a group of 11 backpackers and 2 crew as we "sailed" around in the Ragamuffin II. I say "sailing" because we had almost no wind at all during the three days we were out there. we had clear skies both day and night and it was really cool. One of my fondest memories from the trip was laying up on the deck of the sailboat at night time, talking to Björn and Torkel, and just admiring the thousands of stars above us.  I will always treasure that memory.

 
The areas we went to were the same places I go to umpteen times per week, so the trip was more about the company than the destinations really. Both of them have gone from the island now. Björn is back down in Adelaide, and Torkel is on his way north. first for a stay up in Townsville and Cairns and then he will go back to Norway.
I must say that I really appreciated the visit, and they mean so much to me both of them. nuff said. instead of writing more girlietalk I will now show you some of the photos of the mean killer crocodiles. 😀