Townsville again.

Been making some new friends and learnt a new term: you've heard of backpackers, well what about vanpackers? Pretty obvious I hear you say. Well I'd not heard the term before nor is it listed in Wikipedia, atm. Anyway whilst, cooling my heels, waiting for various things to happen I've been hanging where the overseas 'vanpackers' congregate at night, mostly French and German. Fortunately they usually speak pretty good English. My second language skills extend only to a bit of Papua New Guinea pidgin English (Pisin) and Aussie slang (Strine). So yeah, I've taught them a few words :)

No, not my jocks!