Rugby

Last week I went to a rugby game with a bunch of friends.  The stadium is only about a 30 minute walk or so from campus, but they also run a bus directly from campus to the stadium so we hopped on that (not knowing it would cost us 8 dollars round trip).  Townsville's rugby team is called the Cowboys and they are having a pretty decent season this year; right now they are in 6th place or something like that.  The Cowboys also have the best player in the world, Jonathon Thurston, so that was really exciting.  The team we were playing was in 2nd place at the night so it was a pretty big game.

We got seats in the lawn area for only 10 bucks which was nice because we got to sit on the grass wherever we wanted and move about as we wished, so I actually preferred it to sitting in the actual stands.  The lawn seating areas are also directly behind the end zones (probably not what they are actually called) so we got to be really close to the action as well.  Rugby is probably one of the simplest sports to learn because there are very few rules.  It is really an awesome game and a really good spectator sport because the action is non-stop and it is very violent.  There was a 20 minute stoppage at one point in the game because a player got knocked out and had to be carted off on a stretcher.  

The game itself was pretty close, the Cowboys dominated the first half but ended up sucking the second half so the Bulldogs came back to win.  Our group got lucky in that most of the tries were scored on our end of the field so we got to see all the action.  

It was too quick for me.

I got back from the weekend dive trip out to Wheeler Reef/Yongala last night, it was an amazing trip.  I finished up editing all my photos just now, so I'll have those up by tonight.  Pretty cool stuff.  

For good measure this is a picture of me failing a backflip attempt off of the rope swing.