Down under

I've seen loads of spiders now! Golden orbs mostly. Got bitten as well by a green tree ant, otherwise known as the acid ant. It does what it says on the tin - its bite burns your skin like acid, and now i have a nice thing on my leg which hurts more than anything i've felt before.
Went into the rainforest yesterday...wow is all i can say. I walked around the tracks (you'd have to be pretty stupid to walk off the tracks) and met some aboriginals. I took the skyline back to the town and saw lots of parrots and insects. The food here is amazing, the nicest food i've tasted anywhere. They have traffic lights which sound like pacman! and all cars turning left don't have to stop at traffic lights cause they have right of way, so crossing the road feels like pac man! I heard the best advert on the tram yesterday too...'my man is a 2min man and i hate it, i want to trade him in for a new man.' 'You're lucky, my man is a 1.30 man, but i've found something to help.... if you're man has premature ejactuculation... bla bla bla' Well. i thought it was funny, i actually laughed out loud!

I have left Cairns and have headed down South, i want to go back to Cairns for a couple of days before i leave still. I went through the tablelands, which is a rish outback, it looks like Wales! The tableslands is where a lot of fruit and coffee is grown and dairy herds. I visited a palace near Atherton, it has a sad story behind it, like most beautiful palaces do....it was built by a man here for his Italian sweetheart, it took him 5 years to build and when he went to Italy to bring her over he found that she had married another man, so he married her (ugly) sister instead. The palace is mostly fallen down now, but still quite a sight.
I arrived in Townsville yesteday, it looks similar to America, but a lot more dated. it's quite an easy base for me so i can get to other places easily. I'm going to Billabong tomorrow to see some crocs and Magentic island for a few days to go jet skiing, walking and horse riding. it's like a tropical island with white sand and palm trees, should be a nice little paradise for me to catch some rays and chill out with the sea turtles. Next week i'll head to Sydney and the Blue Mountains and catch up with my cuz. In the meantime i'm going fishing today, Barramundi are supposidly easy to catch, which is what a beginner like me needs and i'll be back at the place i'm staying in for 6pm because the cockatoos and moutain parrots pass by. I watched them yesterday, hundreds of birds flying past, they like wet bread i've heard, so i'll see if i can tempt them closer.