Hello again! Guess what, I have dived with great white sharks and survived!!!
I am in Port Lincoln, South Australia, at the moment. Been spending the past few days exploring the beautiful, rugged coastline of the Eyre Peninsula. But, last I posted here I was still in Queensland so allow me to catch ya'll up...

 Started my roadtrip by going north from Townsville at Wallaman Falls, the highest waterfall in Australia

 There were a bunch of adorable little calves on the road there

 My accommodation, either I sleep in the hammock or in the back of my car, every now and again I splurge and stay a night or two in a hostel as well, mainly so I can take a warm shower!!

 couple chickens had to check out my car while I went and checked out the waterfall

 The Etherton Tablelands is where all these gorgeous waterfalls were at and they had a bunch of little dairy farms around too!

 Haha, these geese where hilarious. At the dairy here they make cheese and chocolate and also have a little petting zoo of sorts, well these geese came running up and were chasing me until I let them each have a big bite of my shoes, then the ran off squawking again. Don't need a guard dog with these geese around!

 Curtain fig, its a massive suffocating fig

 Lots of nice, very cold swimming holes under the falls

 This is in Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest north of Cairns

 Rainforest and beaches are right next to eachother in the Daintree, quite beautiful!

Went to Hartley's Crocodile Adventures which is basically another tropical zoo but with lots of crocs! And... my phone doesn't want to upload any more photos at the moment... which is quite a bummer because I have about 300 photos to show you guys! But here's a couple of lazy koalas :)

Anyways, I'm going to keep moving. There's lots of exploring to do before I fly home in 3 weeks!!

On the road again!
After 4 weeks of flood cleanup, Team Rubicon has pulled out from Townsville which makes me a free woman! So I'm going to try seeing as much of the tropical north as I can this week. Here's some pictures of what I've seen so far, enjoy!

 The possums down under are way cuter than the ones back home

 This little family of owls would hang out in the tree just outside the kitchen and say hi to all the Team Rubicon volunteers every day

 More koalas, just cause their cute

 Taken in a wetland reserve just outside Townsville. It's so beautiful and green after the floods. Kinda makes me think of pictures I've seen of Africa for some reason

 Bush Turkey

 Tiny tiny frog!

And a small geoana! These guys can grow to be 3 feet long

I've got a bunch more pictures but my phone doesn't want to upload them at the moment so I'll just have to do another blog post soon!

And I've booked flights home! Coming home April 17 and staying for a month

How is it March already!? I've been Down Under a whole year already which is just crazy. It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me as I've joined Team Rubicon Australia to help out with the flood cleanup in Townsville. We were hit by a once in a century monsoon and most of Townsville got flooded. So that's what I've been busy doing! And I quit my job working at the cafe; can't say I'm sorry to leave.

I've really found a niche in Team Rubicon, its full of people who share my work ethic and enjoy helping others who are in real need. Quite a neat organization, started by two US Marines after the earthquakes in Haiti. They saw that the aid given by local city councils, emergency workers, and large aid groups like the Red Cross left a gap in disaster relief that veterans were uniquely capable of filling. Since then it has grown to include emergency workers and "kick a** civilians" and become a global organization. We've had people from all over Australia fly up here and even had some Canadians fly out this past week! And because we had the Canadians we took a little field trip to Billabong Wildlife Sanctuary.

 There's a bunch of kangaroos who will eat from your hand and take selfies haha

 Theres a whole bunch of big ol' crocodiles

 Komodo dragon

 Brown snake, this is the only one I'm really scared of in Australia

 Koalas :)

 Look at the claws on the kangaroos!

 Hundreds of turtles would pop their heads up whenever you walked close to the water

 There's these crazy birds called Cassowarys, like that one bird from the movie Up, didn't get a very good picture of them though, sorry

 Emu with a slightly deformed beak

 I think these are called bilbies, but I know they are cute!

 See the big croc? I was walking along this fence trying to work out if this was just a mucky old empty creek or not and this massive crocodile eerily swims up and stopped on the shore here.

 Dingoes, they're cute but I still don't like them after being on the cattle station

 Hahaha, I have a story about this big guy but I'm going to ask my lovely mother to not read it because she'll worry.

So, this real big crocodile had been lying next to the fence, just chilling in the shade, not moving at all. The Canadians were all there checking him out taking pictures and selfies and everything and the croc just stayed still as a statue. Then when they turned to leave, he lunged straight at them, grabbed a big tree in his massive jaws and tore a chunk out of it. There were men in that group but by their screams you would have thought it was a group of teenage girls. You can see he still has a chunk of the tree in his mouth in the picture.

 This is our group of greyshirts from this past week, the next wave are flying in today so we'll see if we can finish up the flood cleanup this week!