That photo above is of a humpback whale with her calf cruising around Sydney Harbour a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, I didn’t take that photo…I had no idea about this. I would have KILLED to see that. Oh well. The SMH has the story, complete with a spokesmen from the Department of Environment saying that this must mean the harbour is clean. Sure.

Meanwhile, up in Byron Bay things are getting a bit insane as far as marine life goes; a great white has been stalking surfers and feeding on a whale carcass just 100 metres off the beach.

Then just eleven days later in the same area…

Those poor girls had to climb up onto The Wreck to avoid a shark in Byron Bay. According to the article there have been over 30 shark sightings in Byron in the past month. What kind of people are still getting in the water there? Hippies.

Then just a few days ago this photo was snapped from a helicopter over Byron…

Article and photo credit here. Nuts.

Leaving the water for the backyards of Perth, this article points out that there has been a dramatic increase in snake attacks on pets in the city. My favourite piece of advice from the article:

Myth: Broken eggshells around the inside of your house will keep snakes out. Keeping the windows and doors shut are much more likely to keep snakes out of the house.

Thanks Captain Obvious.

Thanks.

I leave Canada and a conservative assmunch is elected. I move to Australia and Howard gets the boot. Sorry Canada. You’re very welcome Australia. It was way back in December last year when I first mentioned Kevin Rudd as he took control of Australia’s Labour Party (think Canada’s Liberal Party…with maybe a touch of the NDP) and here we are nearly a year later and he will be the new Prime Minister of Australia.

The best part of this election? At the moment it appears that John Howard is in SERIOUS danger of not even winning his seat in Bennelong. That has gotta hurt.

Also, holding elections on a Saturday? Brilliant. People are right up for a party…there’s a friggin band playing in the courtyard of the building next door. Much more of a carnival than elections back home. I guess making voting mandatory has benefits.

More here.

Enough with the lazy posts….

Tomorrow is Election Day here in Australia (Go Rudd!). Should be interesting.

On a recent trip to Maui…

More here.

For the most part, Canadians and Aussies spell things the same way: the British way as opposed to the American way.

Colour not color.

Favourite not favorite.

Centre not center.

But for some reason Canadians follow the Americans on words like moisturize which Australians spell moisturise. Australians will recognise you but seldom recognize you. Now of course there are some instances where Aussies will favour (!) the “American” version but I doubt many Canadians ever use the -ise ending. Does anyone have any idea why?

I blame the French.

Help a brotha out.

For the full story behind the above photogragh (it’s sort of fake), click here.

A: If you’re the Australian police you put it in prison.

I know this country has a convict past, but this is a bit much.