Melbourne so far.

I arrived here after an unusually pleasant eight hour drive at about 7pm yesterday. Pani and I went out into the city which was not so exciting, then we came home and threw eggs at people. That was cool! I had forgotten how fun remedial childrens activities can actually be.
Today was pretty slow for the first half, we went to the park at around 3pm and played cricket with a skate board and a tennis ball, then proceeded home.
I sat on Pani's window sill for about an hour reading Thoreau periodically watching traffic and people continually pass by as I looked down from my perch on my second story window sill.
This afternoon was very random though. I got Pani to drop me off at Liam and Moonie's Tattoo studio and then Liam proceeded to binge me. I now have my first Tattoo. During my few hours at the tattoo parlor I also managed to feel two separate pairs of breasts just through Moonie being a douche haha.

Comfort zone.

Tomorrow I am leaving Narooma, which I suppose I consider my last safe haven on my journey west. Tomorrow I head for Melbourne for a few days and then from there I continue onto Geraldton. I did not think I would be worried about this but as it is now very close to the point in time where I will be completly out of my comfort zone I am thinking immensely about alot of different factors. Mainly the fact I have never been past Melbourne and the fact that the job I am trying to get, from all things that I have been told is extreemly intense. I am not worried about anything because there has never been a point in time where things have not always worked out for me. But I judge it is the anticipation of the unknown that has me a little nervous. Camping and surfing and reading and music and ALOT of driving are the things that are awating me, and I am more than eager to begin my pilrigmage.

Narooma today.

Today was actually a pretty good day in Narooma, it was kind of eventful well not eventful but I spose it just goes to show there is always something to do. I got up at around 7 and went into town. I met up with Ben and Todd and went to Mystery Bay and went cliff jumping, it was not overly big, about 8-10 meters. It was the first time I had been a little bit scared for a long time though. Ben and I then went surfing around lunch which was pretty fun, alougth nothing special. Then this afternoon Ben, Tyron, Rowan and myself went wake boarding which I have only done 3 times now but its real fun.

Today just emphasised to me what I had previously written, and that despite how little I always seem to think there is to do in this town, its actually not that bad.

A fruitless search.

"Every leaf and twig was this morning covered with a sparkling ice armor; even the grasses in exposed fields were hung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveler. It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems....Such is beauty ever-neither here nor there, now nor then-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. If I seek her elsewhere because I do not find her at home, my search will prove a fruitless one." -Henry David Thoreau

I look at so many people I know complaning about how shit they think there town is or how there is never anything to do and that moving to another area will make everything better. I used to listen to these people and think to myself that the only problem you have is that you have either, no imagination or you lack the intelligence to find things to do. A much smarter person than me was quoted as saying "only the man lacking intelligence is ever bored". Never have I heard a more true statment than this. It is as simple as reading a book, but if you do feel you have to leave your house then there is a world of endless possibilities, go for a walk and just look up, look up at trees, look up at the sky, look up at the top of buildings, watch branches move in the wind, follow birds with your eyes. Look at something that you would not normally look at, just take a different perspective on the things you look at everyday, it is amazing what you will realise you have been walking past everyday and have never noticed. There is never nothing going on. Go for a swim, ride a bike, turn off you television, learn a language do anything that might stimulate your mind. This is the only reason you are bored, because you are not stimulating your mind, just do something different that you would not normally do.

If you think moving, without actually trying to change something as a person will solve all your problems, then I hope that it works for you. Learn to be alone, its the best thing you will ever do for yourself!

"There is never nothing going on."

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Narooma

I am not sure it is possible to hate the town you grew up in, for a long time I thought I did, and there are so many things about this town that I can not stand but when I drive in and see my friends and the family house I grew up in it always brings a sense of comfort to me. There have not been any waves for the last few days, and the supermarket only sells one kind of tofu and pretty much no other non meat products, when I asked a member of perishables for the tofu he had to ask someone else and then it took them about 2 minutes to find it. But I have realised that home will always be home no matter how many short comings it may have. For those of you who don't know the photo is a photo of my house well not my house but the view from my house at sunset. Its not the best photos but you get the picture, its really nice!

Sydney

So Sydney is a terrible terrible place! I have spent almost $1000 in three days I have surfed twice.. small fat onshore waves with 50 other guys out, its 50 degrees, people are so agressive and there is always noise coming from somewhere. I think thats the worst thing, no matter where you are, no matter what house you are in or what room in the house even in the surf you can just hear the constant noise of traffic and people and its mostly agressive sounds, its never anything soothing, its horns and loud exhausts. It just gets to me.
On a positive note a very positive note I went to the best book store I have ever been to. It was amazing! Three stories of second hand books, I walked out with a pile of books I could barely carry, ohh it was amazing!!

I left Byron Bay

So yesterday I left Byron Bay, I am heading to Western Australia to surf 10 foot bombies and work on cray boats.

The day I left was good I shaved my head in the morning and then went and surfed Tallow just afterwards with Tomato and it was 3-4 foot pumping. I then packed my car and started my drive down the coast later in the arvo. Its normally not that bad of a drive but it seemed to go forever, at about 8:30pm I pulled over and slept in my car for about 30 mins before driving again at about 10:30 i was still about 150kms out of Newcastle and was about to drive my little car under the wheels of one of the massive semis that seemed to constantly over take me.. speed limited 100kms thats a bullshit thing! So I pulled over and rolled my swag out at some seedy truck stop and went to sleep. I woke up at about 4:30am and continued my drive still very tired and extreemly seedy!
Now I am in Sydney for a few days waiting for something to happen.