Townsville,

Townsville is about a 2 hours flight north of Brisie. I flew there this week and Internet is hard to come by here and very expensive in my hotel room. (12$ p/h) So sorry I’ve been away for a while.
I had done some work for a client so it was time to show him what I had made. I flew there, well dressed, suit, shirt, and shiny shoes, only to discover the site was a Nickel refinery site. So everything was dirty. The guys must have laughed their asses of seeing a white collar dude wearing a helmet, safety glasses, Iron nose shoes, an orange safety shirt AND a suit.
They refine huge, immense and truly gigantic amounts of nickel ore imported from New Caledonia. The Chinese buy everything and anything at any price these days so my client is doing pretty well. It’s a 35 minutes drive into the middle of nowhere and if you have no air conditioning in your car, you’re dead. Its 35C here and humidity is just about 400%.

The people here are so friendly that it’s difficult for me as a Dutch person (a tribe from the north plagued by reservations, remoteness and stand-offishnes) to remain cool. The guys I worked with came to like me and invited me to a restaurant (their treat). Isn’t that cool? One of the guys owns 2 jet skis and if I’m up to it, we’ll go jet skiing on Sunday.
In short the Hotel room : fantastic, view: fantastic, weather: waaay too hot. Work : waaay too much, People: waaaay too friendly. Had a good time. Tomorrow I’m going diving! I’ve heard there are giant gropers out there!.