Australia pictures

Here's just a picture of me on our last bus ride.







We crossed the tropic of capricorn... big moment in history.









This is a lake on the largest sand island in the world.

Picture of the skydiving crew... we all survived. I was the only guy skydiving that day, so I definitely couldn't back out. Nice pants huh?

Both of these are pictures of the Whitsundays. They are a group of islands near Brisbane. The beach on top is supposedly one of the best beaches in the world. The sand is like 98 percent quartz so it is very fine and almost completely white.

Same lake on the sand island.

We stayed on a cattle ranch one night and the took us out on a tractor ride. That's our bus in the background.

Famous opera house in Sydney.

Waiting for the ferry...

Snokeling in the Whitsundays.

Back in Kuwait

I'm back in beautiful Kuwait yet again. I think this is my sixth time being here. The civilian side of the airport is really nice, but very expensive. I'm now at the military side waiting on a flight to Afghanistan.

It's still hard to think I just got back from Australia. Now it seems like I barely left Afghanistan but now I'm back again. I still need to post pictures of all the stuff that happened there.

I think my favorite part of the trip was skydiving. If you haven't done it, you need to. I also really liked surfing and going out with my Korean buddies and getting Korean food. Yum... I would have liked to spend some more time at some of the resorts we stayed at, but then I wouldn't have been able to see as much of the country as I did. I guess I'll just have to plan another trip there soon...

Australia

Well my trip to Australia is just about over and I haven't even made a post on it. It was extremely busy but a ton of fun.
I landed in Sydney, where all I did was sleep and walk around the city a little. After that, I flew to Proserpine which is a ways up north to start my tour. We started in a "yacht" which must be an Australian definition because it was tiny. We had barely any room to sleep. Other than that, it was pretty fun. We saw a lot of the islands called Whitsundays and got to go to some nice beaches and do some snorkeling.
After we got back, we stayed at a resort for one night which was really nice. Maybe I should have just stayed there instead of going on the boat.

Leave

Today's the day I'm finally leaving Afghanistan for a little while. Actually, I probably won't be leaving Afghanistan for a few more days, but at least I'm leaving my little FOB. I'm pretty excited and I hope everything goes ok. I'll try and update this a little more since I'll have something to talk about.

Guitar

It snowed again today, looks like it might be a regular occurance for a little while. Oh well, I should be leaving in about 2 weeks for leave. There have been rumors that our leave will be pushed back a little bit because there guys in December that are still waiting to go. We'll see what happens.

I'm still practicing the guitar, with little improvement. We'll see how that goes. I also invested some money into some of the banks that took a nose dive this year. I heard they probably will start going up, so maybe I'll be making some money.

Snow Day

Today has been our first real snow that stuck. Hopefully it doesn't melt anytime soon, otherwise there will be a ton of mud. Everything else seems to have really slowed down due to weather. We have to conserve most everything because flights are rare or non-existant. I like the snow, but it seems to cause a lot of problems.

Not much else going on, I just hope our leave won't get delayed. I talked to one guy who also went Australia, and he said he had a good time. I'll try and post some pictures of the snow when I get the chance. The mountains around us look pretty cool.

Bad Weather

The weather has been pretty bad the last couple of days. It's been raining, hailing and windy, but no snow. It makes it hard for anyone to leave or come in or mail to get here. If winter stays like this, it's going to be really slow.

Not much else going on here. Waiting for January to get here. Also, if any of you have any requests for authentic Afghanistan stuff, let me know. I'll try and buy it soon and ship it out.