Hi to the Prats-Romo girls! Hopefully one day, we will share a drink again! Thank you for your lovely comments - nice to know someone bothers to look at the blog! I trust you are both well - and stop apologising for your English. It will ALWAYS be better than my Catalan!

Cormac and Gill, and a butterfly:

Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes by text, email, MSN and Facebook. I will try and getting around to getting in touch with y'all soon. Nice to be remembered!

  'Tis a wild world up here in FNQ...these signs are everywhere near estuarine waters (click on pic to see full size):



and wandering through jungles, you gotta watch out for things like this 10 inch leg span Golden Orb Spider (The big momma spider's abdomen is almost the size of my palm...if you look close, you might see lots of little male spiders on the web. These are the size of normal house spiders, and will get eaten when they successfully mate!):

And eating - here he is polishing off a bit of marinaded Greek lamb from the barbie!

Suspected pig flu has turned out to be a common-or-garden variety. Or...it could be Ross River virus, or any other of the weird and wondrous one can contract up here in FNQ. oink Oink OINK!???