plans change

Today is Friday the 23rd and we should be in Brisbane right now but here I sit on the balcony of our second home here in Yamba. We arrived back in Yamba on Sunday, totally exhausted from our overnight flight from Bangkok. For some reason they would not let us sleep, but kept bringing us horrid airplane food. I guess they figured we were loosing 3 hours and wouldn’t want to go to sleep. Monday we were still recovering and then Tuesday Greg started to get deathly ill with a flu that is going around here in Yamba. Today he is still barely able to sit up or eat anything but he was finally able to get a somewhat decent night’s sleep last night at least. He has a fever, bad cough, and temperature and generally feels as bad as he has ever felt. I have been waiting for the other foot to fall so to speak, and find I have the same crud, but so far so good. I am so glad neither of us were sick when we were in Viet Nam or Bangkok, it is hard enough here. I have been very impressed with the doctor we went to see as well as the ladies down at the chemist who have been helpful (it only took them 5 minutes to fill a script as they call them)

So I have been playing nurse and travel agent for us. Fortunately we have travel insurance that will cover the cost of the week in Namotu, Fiji we were suppose to have as well as doctors and flight rearranging. It has been very hard to do all this without a phone or a reliable connection to the Internet. I will be happy to get home to my good Internet connection so I can upload stuff faster and have the Internet at my fingertips whenever I want it. But that is what traveling is all about, taking what comes and being flexible.

I am trying not to dwell on the time we would be having in Fiji, but instead just being glad I am not feeling like Greg does!! I had a really good session at Angourie the other afternoon with only a couple of guys out and some beauties coming in. and right now I am overlooking Main Beach and I can see the plunge they have here (it is a 25 meter pool) that has a simple system that allows it to be filled twice a day when the tide comes in. I have seen a lot of folks using it to do laps, I know I would much rather swim in it than a chlorinated pool, I wish we had one in SB.

It is amazing how much it has changed around here since we arrived a month and a half ago. The weather has gotten much colder, (May was a record setting warm month this year). The water has gotten a bit colder, although I was body surfing in my short john today. I was collecting shells out at Angourie yesterday and saw shells I have not seen before. The whales are really starting to migrate north, I have seen so many of them today, it is really cool, they swim fairly close in, closer than in SB. Almost all of my beloved Plummer a flowers have disappeared and the bushes are hibernating. It is so weird that the sun is telling us it is Christmas time and yet it is June!! I will be glad to get back to summer and the longer days it has.

at this point i do not know when we will be heading home, i guess it depends on flight availablity.....keep us in your prayers...