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Gidday Mates,

Greetings from Townsville/Magnetic Island, North-Queensland, Australia (about 4 hrs South of Cairns). I just got here today from Cairns and hope to do a day of wreck diving on the Yangala Wreck, which is an old ship that sank during a cyclone around 1911. It should be pretty sweet.For Xmas I was in Cape Tribulation, North Queensland, Australia (about 2 hrs north of Cairns). It was hot and humid there where the tropical rainforrest meets the South Pacific and the only white I saw this Christmas is the sand on the beach (I’m sure others saw a different type of white….). The guest house there was very sweet, amidst the jungle and it was filled with about 100+ travelers who were quite festive for the occasion at the giant Xmas dinner (several were busting santa costumes, hats or raindeer horns and some had a blow-up Santa). I am still in the North of Oz, so haven’t yet been to the South, to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, etc., but I will start to make my way down the coast after New Years. For New Years, I plan to make it to Airlai beach, which is kind of a traveler party center, so I hope to be up for the challenge. It can hard keeping up with the younger folk night after night in the pubs and discos, but I am sure I will manage….

Normally I don’t put much stock in astrological mumbo jumbo, but this one seems right on:

You will discover that you are much better off if you simply take a break from your daily chores and focus more on having fun. Don’t feel like you need to chug up another whole mountain today. Take a time out and let yourself recharge.

So, I am taking one big time out as we speak. This time out will evolve into multiple buckets full of rum and coke as I watch Thai boxing later tonight then charge the disco until about 5AM (basically a similar version of the previous 5 nights)…

Later,

~ Loungin’ Lopez (live from Ko Phi-Phi, Thailand)