wj lost in translation: DAG 104: X-mas at Cape Tribulation.

I celibrated x-mas in the most beautifull spot in Australia: Cape Tribulation. Gorgeous thick rainforest ends up at the white beach. I am fascinated by the capricious mangrove forest and the dark rocks surrounding the beaches. Hundred of funny crabs are running around on their backlegs. They are pretty fast too. On Boxing day i wake up at the beach under the full moon. I only hear the rushing of the sea. It feels like Paradise

But when Captain Cook discovered this part, he didn't think it was paradise. Stuck for months at the Barrier Reef (it is shallow there) he finally made it to the shore, to be welcomed by deadly spiders, crocodiles, jellyfish, snakes, agressive ants, sandfleas, leeches and mosquitos. At these are just the animals! We also got plants like the 'wait a while' with strings of thorns where you can get stuck in. There is the 'Gympe Gympe' a very obnoxius plant that has tons of tiny needles that sticks into your skin and give you tremendous pain. There is even a killer tree that strangles his host tree and eats it alive until nothing there is nothing left of the host. the indegouis people used to bury their deads inside these strangler figs, so when Cook came onshore he thought the trees ate the humans. When he couldn't find freash water and food he was so fedded up with this place Cook that he named this place Tribulation. I am surrounded by mount Pity and Mount Sorrow.It suits me to celibrate x-mas here.

But Cook didnt had warm showers, internet, insectrepellent, a cool swimmingpool, a bar (that luckily didnt play WHAM or MARAIH CAREY xmas songs) with free beer and great dishes like the wild Burumundi. So i Cook would discover this place again, he propably will gave it a more positive name. On our way to Tribulation our Guide shows us a nest of green ants, according to him the most aggresive ant on earth. When they are attacked, they all come out together show their enimt their ass and squirts out a nasty smelling kind of acid. It seems that you can made tea out of it and they also use i for a substitue for lemon. Licking the ass (like i did, yes it was always a dream of me to lick the ass of an ant) is like licking a 9 volt battery.