Remmirathion Vinyandoro

Well, it's October the 3rd and Nick is celebrating his 17th birthday, which makes me feel kind of old, however, I was twelve when hew was born, so it's altogether not so bad.

Getting Seb to pose for a picture is almost impossible, considering that he loves doing faces all the time and he barely stays still to take a picture. There you go, not the birthday boy but he certainly can steal scene! -smile.

Here's the birthday boy, all grown up now. I do remember clearly when he was born and all the funny things he used to say when he as a child. Now he says funny things alright, but far from comments a child would do!

Jade, the girlfriend, who confessed during dinner that she absolutely hates pictures. Well, she's not alone as I do hate pictures too, but there are times that deserve putting away that feeling and actually letting people know you do appreciate them.

BJ and Sam (BJ, Thanks for the invitation, it was great and really fun!). We had a really good time at Sizzler, even thought the food was overcooked and not all of us enjoyed it as we should (maybe the grill was too hot, but food had that charcoal taste).

I tried to avoid the picture, but well, I had to take a photo with them as these are my last days in Australia and they'll be back to school on Monday. Don't blame me, but I've gained 6 kilos since I arrived here, something like 2 kilos per month, but I'll shed them for my birthday, it's a promise.

Well, here, all of us together, celebrating Nick's birthday... We had the chance to celebrate Seb's birthday back in Colombia, when they were visiting, so it makes things even for me at least. I'm going to miss them heaps once I leave Australia, but I know I'll be back again to see them....

See you's later!

Well, my nephew was playing basket the day I was on my way to Brisbane, so I couldn't see much but it was fun. They didn't make it, again, his team was the runner up, but still made me very proud.

It took me a while to get back to blog, but it's been a busy month for me and taking pictures was my last priority. However, I managed to get some photos of the final, because my sis stayed home while I was traveling so I could get to see what had happened.

It was a very good game from what I heard, my nephew said they were very close and almost win, that the score was even, but they lost the game for 4 freaking points!

Still, great to see them really motivated with sports and involved in healthy activities.

With this game the sport season ended for both, Spring is here and it gets too hot to play such demanding games, however they can do it if they file like doing it, but well, I think after all the training they deserve some rest and take it slow for a while.

With the school break comes the time to catch up and these two weeks ought to be productive.

For the last months I've been watching on TV this sport that I find really rough sometimes but everyone is used to it. Is Rugby that is somewhat like American Football but backwards, they tackle and everything else.

My nephew plays this sport and he's good at it, but I just can't think of how many times I've seen how violent it gets that it actually ends with knuckle sandwiches.

So today were the finals for footy this season in Bundy, but well, I had to sit next to my other nephew so he could explain what was going on and what the rules were. Long story short, my nephews team was the runner up after the longest 40 minutes of my life. He scored 4 out of the 14 points, but unfortunately the other team managed to make 28 and extra 2 points at the end. Still, great game and got to see really good teams playing.

  Seb is my nephew and boy he's good playing this thing! I'm not usually a fan of violent sports but he loves playing it and I think it's actually better to let teens get their anger out playing on the field than get into fights at school or somewhere else.

I was so proud to see him there that I usually never get excited about any sport at all but today it was quite an experience, stressful to the max, but still a good experience.

Next weekend is the final for my other nephew, Nick, but he plays basket and that one I get. I guess it's going to be as stressing as footy but I'll manage, I'm taking pictures too and share them with you so you get to know them.

Well, time goes by and you really don't know where it goes. So far I have been here for two months already! Wow! It's been an amazing journey, with ups and downs of course, but I can't complain, people is people and they never change.

During the last two months I tried to look for something a little bit gay friendly around this area. I had that party in Maryborough, mostly girls and the boys where just... how can I put that without being rude? Let's leave it that way.

So, having this experience I decided to give up and do some tourism, so I visited other areas around just to have fun, not being all the time here at home.

This interesting building was one of my stops. It's just a huge water tank that supplied the city with water a long time ago. Pretty interesting design as it has a certain resemblance to the Pisa Tower, except that this one is straight.

It's 36 something meters tall and it's made of pure brick. Quite a landmark to be honest.

I took a nice photo of me over there (give me a break, being vain once in a while doesn't hurt anyone, does it?) to give you an idea of how big is each one of the frames. It was a perfect sunny day to do this!

This reminds me that there are gay guys in Bundaberg, but they're not easy to find, or at least for me... (let's face it, I'm not a hunter nor a sexual predator).

The we headed for Bargara.

In Bargara there is this beach where you can have a nice barbie and relax for a while. It's rocky, I know, but it's really nice. Now, if you like sandy beaches you just have to head south and you'll find sandy beaches all the way down to Sydney, and there are lots! This is just the closest and it's fine for me, as I'm not into getting suntanned nor swimming in freezing cold water.

Right now the temperature of the water it's not the best for swimming but Spring is here and you can enjoy lovely walks on the beach. There were a lot of families around here playing and enjoying a delightful afternoon, so we decided to do the same and had a delicious chicken and bacon barbecue pizza (Domino's and extremely small if you ask me). So, then we took off to the Hummock, from where you can have a view of the whole area.

From here you can look down south and see the tip of Fraser Island, very popular around here and close to Hervey Bay (actually when you flight the ticket says Hervey Bay - Fraser Island). There are not many elevated mountains around here but you can fins towns all the way inland heading towards the outback, that still remains a complete mystery to me and quite appealing.

This area is mostly volcanic rock, here's a sample of that. Sugar Cane is grown all around here but people are moving out of it since it's not profitable and they're trying other stuff, but the soil is extremely rich. There are areas where the soil is red and it stains everything it touches.

There are a lot of things I still ignore about this place, since it's son big that you hardly believe is a small continent (or a extremely big island?), but it's certainly really interesting.

And now, just a quick view of Bundaberg South.

This video I found looking through some of the files in my computer, I didn't know I had but I liked it so much that I decided to post it here!

Enjoy!