Monday, September 28, 2009

Waking up to Jumanji Orchestra

I slept steady through the night, and we woke up around 05:00 AM, the sun was slowly coming up and there were noises we never heard before, it sounded like a jungle, it was nice to hear something different than crows fighting over a piece of your roof back in Europe. We realized that morning that we didn't check the bed for spiders, nor the bathroom, nor anything else for that matter : We were so tired that we just didn't think of it, and happily fell asleep. Dale had left us some bread with ham and some cookies which we ate for breakfast. The early morning weather was reasonably cold and dew was on the table and chairs outside. It was officially friday and thus people were already going to work around 06:00 including Dale who had a job in Dicky Beach ( Sunshine Coast ). Around 06:30 we decided to check out those terrible traffic jams on the Bruce Highway that we heard everyone talk about. When we drove over the Bruce Highway which leads up from Mango Hill where our rental room is, to the Sunshine Coast we didn't notice a single traffic jam. It was a little clogged up, something that European's would call "driving 90 instead of 110" at some points but the traffic was really enjoyable, after 20 kilometers north of Brisbane the traffic thinned out completely and we drove without problems to the Sunshine Coast. Now I must admit this is the Schoolies period ( Like Spring Break in the USA ) where kids have 2 weeks holiday after getting their diploma's. Perhaps that's why there's less traffic but as far as we know, there just aren't any traffic jams on the Bruce Highway at all. In fact, till today I yet have to see even a small 100meter traffic jam, let alone the 20kilometers long daily "dutch jams" which I imagine are similar to the M1 and M4 near London each morning. Nothing like that over here, people already complain about heavy traffic when they can see more than 10 cars on the road : You get the picture.

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