2009!

Stand on the Strand
After I came back from Magnetic Island I parked my car in Townsville and walked around a little; there would be a music festival going on for the next couple of days. And I thought I recognized a sound... when I went over it was the same band playing that I saw at the jazzfestival in Rockhampton; Scat (http://www.scatjazz.com/ (they got some videos there as well).
So since they would play over the next couple of days I decided to stay and watch...
Listen actually.

Christmas
When I was playing guitar away from the festival a guy walked up to me, he plays the guitar as well, we started talking... and an hour later he asked me what I would be doing with christmas... and invited me over to his place!
Pretty special.
You have to be really friendly or pretty crazy to invite a stranger for christmas.
Wait... I`ll rephrase:
You`ll have to be totally crazy to invite me for christmas... ;-)

I had a really good time over the next couple of days; like I said Caleb plays the guitar, his father the drums; his nephew guitar as well... it was almost like home with a whole band.

New Years Eve
After christmas I left Townsville; Traveled up to Mission Beach in 3 days while seeing some nice rainforest and waterfalls (my camera is still being repaired...) When I arrived in Mission Beach on the 30th, I thought or spend new years eve here, or drive 120km north and be in Cairns.... huhm. So alltough I visisted with some random guys from a hostel in Cairns, was still pretty good. Fireworks were amazing. Proffessional firework (big, huge) fired off from barges for 30 minutes, amazing.