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| Patty's First Impressions of Queensland, Australia Were
we the first ones to climb it without supplemental oxygen?
The Spider Web Rope along The Strand in Townsville, QLD (above). Nikki Paul and Neeta Pennylegion do some fancy acrobatics while climbing (below). Several students burnt off some excess energy (and the decadent cheesecake they had at lunch) by climbing a rope spider web set up along The Strand in Townsville. Situated along the beachfront and without any safety apparati (other than the sandy beach beneath it), it was unusual to our American-bred eyes. In the States, it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen and therefore removed immediately. But in Australia (and in many other non-American countries), it’s the norm. Barristers (Queen’s English for lawyers) clearly have better things to do than litigate spurious lawsuits. Talk about wanting to backseat drive!
The view from the shuttle to the Billabong Sanctuary. One thing that really startled most of us was driving on the “wrong” side of the street. As you can see, cars drive on the left side – and fair warning to the unwary – pedestrians DON’T have the right of way. Jesse Pepe was nearly run over on our very first day in Australia. A well-learned lesson for the rest of us. Now we know to look right, then left, then right again before entering a street. Rainbow lorikeets, or loris as the locals call them, will land on your balcony and feed from your hand. Lance (shown) fed them grapes, while Evelyn preferred feeding them slices of bread. The loris liked both equally well. A woman brought her cockatoo (cockie) to the Bi-Lo for a visit with the locals. A beautiful bird who, unsurprisingly, preferred women to men. Will they bite?
Lorikeets (above) and a cockatoo (below) aren't your typical urban birds.
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Dr. Philip Pepe in Australia!
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