When I last left you I had decided to stick it out at Scotty's for awhile. As a refresher Scotty's is a hostel in Mission Beach, Queensland, about a two hour drive south of Cairns. Some of the guests are simply traveling through, but others work at a nearby banana farm. The quiet town of Mission Beach. Unfortunately much of the year is jellyfish season and the water is off-limits. Even when they aren't around you have to look out for the crocodiles! Citizens of most countries that qualify for the working holiday visa (most of Western Europe, Canada, Japan, and Korea) can get a second year visa by doing farm work in regional Australia. This explains why the backpackers at Scotty's were toiling away banana 'humping' (carrying banana bunches), 'de-leafing' (cutting dead or dying leaves from the trees), 'injecting' (pumping tree stumps with gasoline to kill them off), 'sorting' (cleaning and cutting the banana bunch...