Camping

For the past two days we have been in Tyrconnell. It's in the outback. With, I don't think really looks like the outback because it's hilly and it has trees and shrubs everywhere. Not the type of outback I was expecting. I think Disney has put wrong ideas in my head. This place we stayed at was literally in the middle of nowhere. It's on the top of a hill and this persons house is made of tin. It's like they are living in the 1940's. They barely even have electricity and have to run a generator if they want to toast a piece of bread. We stayed down the hill from these people's house. We stayed in tents. It was two people to a tent but we thought it was a good idea to use one tent for our changing room and then five of us stayed in one tent. Me, Joey, Andrew, tally, and Becky all slept in one tent and we hung my iPad up on a string to the top of the tent and watched movies both nights. I say we watched movies but we watched Thor both nights and fell asleep ten minutes in. The place we stayed at has an old gold mine on it. It's from the 1800's and still works. They turned it on for us and everything. It was pretty cool. Other than that we did nothing but write our paper. It was pretty boring. Really boring actually.  Now we are on the bus on the way to cape tribulation/daintree. Another rainforest. This one is supposed to be like the tropical rainforest type, like in the Disney movies. Disney really just messes with your head and then you are disappointed when you don't get what they portray in the movies.  Supposedly, the outback doesn't get much water but it rained the whole time we were here. I swear the rain is following us everywhere we go. It rained so hard in cairns and port Douglas (both places I would go diving) that the dive boats didn't even go out. If that happens while I'm here I'm definitely not getting on the plane to LA from Fiji and coming back so I can go diving. I talked to the guy at Tyrconnell that knows all this stuff about gold and he told me where I could get a gold Australian kangaroo coin and how much they would be and stuff, so that would be something cool to bring home.  Hope it doesn't rain!!  Tata