Holi!!

Ya era la noche vieja cuando llegamos a tierra despues de nuestro crucero y rapidito nos fuimos a cojer el autocar a Hervey Bay para pasar las navidades en Frasier Island. Fue muy extranio pasar la noche vieja en un bus, pero estaba lleno de mochileros o guerfanos australianos (asi nos llamamos aqui) Pero los conductores tenian gorritos de santa y habia un buen ambiente navideno, tambien es extranio ver eso cuando hacen 37 grados!! En las paradas tocaban musica navidena y las camareras vestian ropa de navidad. Fue una noche vieja que no olvidare!

Ya en la manana del 25 llegamos a Frasier Island, es la isla de arena mas grande del mundo, con lagos y muchas species de animales. Nuestro gia Graham era un typico Australiano, super simpatico y divertido, nos tocaba musica typica de aqui, se invento juegos para conocernos y Jo gano una botella de vino!!

Bueno lo pasamos super bien, el grupo era fantastico, gente super a la pinta. La verdad esque podria haber sido peor porque tuvimos que andar un huevo por montanias de arenas , el clima no estaba muy bien, estabamos llenos de arena y tuvimos que madrugar los 3 dias! Nuestra cena del 25 en la noche fue pasta or pizza? Ummm no muy navideno! Pero bebimos y bailamos toda la noche, porsupuesto que suffrimos el proximo dia, pero no importa! Las carreteras son como montanias russas asique no es el mejor sitio para estar mareada!!

Los lagos son preciosos, como azules y verdes y muy ondos!! Nade solo el primer dia porque casi me muero de frio! El mar dicen que es super bonito tambien pero con lluvia y cielos grises estaba prohibido nadary en todo caso no se veia muy invitador. El dia que nos fuimos evacuaron la isla porque se acercaba un cyclon! Esa area todavia esta con mucha lluvia y viento.

Mejor de todo fue que casi todos del grupo seguian a Sydney asique hicimos planes para vernos y salir en plan bien es decir no llenos de arena! Asique en la isla hize un monton de amigos y lo pasamos super bien!!!

Chao y Feliz Navidad a todos xxx

A very festive hello to all!!!

It was xmas eve and we dashed to get our coach to Hervey Bay. It was odd spending xmas eve on a coach but it was packed with backpackers or aussie orphans a we called ourselves. The coach drivers had santa hats on & there was a really good atmosphere plus it was boiling which was sooo weird! At a various stops the cafes were playing xmas music & everyone was very festive as we travelled through, its deffo a xmas eve I won't forget!

On Christmas morning we made it to Frasier Island, the largest sand island in the world & it really is massive! Our ranger Graham was a typical aussie, sooo funny & sooo lovely, he actually reminded me of Steve Irwin! He made us wear name tags & ran a competition for the most Christmassy name tag, Jo won it so we got a bottle of vino!!

Frasier Island was awesome but because we had a brilliant group of people! In reality we had to walk so much in rainforests, sand dunes (bloody hard!) the weather wasn't great we had really early starts on all 3 days, we were covered in sand the whole time it could have been crap but we had such a laugh! On xmas night we ate pasta or pizza (not very xmassy) we got drunk at the only bar on the island, well only backpacker bar, Cool Dingo & just danced the night away, obviously suffered massively the next day, plus its a bumpy ride on Frasier, the roads are like rollercoasters!

We went canooing as well, well I say went, I teamed up with tracey (a lovely scottish girl) & Jo, the boys were being very sexist & sceptical about our canooing abilities, Ive done it before although I did tip in a sea full of jellyfish-it was ith Nat in western australia!!! But yeah I was confident! It was embarrassing, all you could hear were girly screams as we nearly tipped about 8 times and did not manageto advance at all, Im sure we were sabbotaged as its almost impossible not to move at all, anyway thats another unsucessful canooing expedition under my belt, nedless to say the boys were very smug, but one did tip in the freezing cold water so justice provailed in the end hahaha!!

The lakes were gorgeous but I only swam once as I almost froze my arse off. On the day we left the whole place got evacuated because there was a cyclone nearby, I hear its still pretty bad even now!

Even better though all my mates from Frasier were heading to Brisbane & then Sydney for New Year so we all made plans to go out on the lash properly once back in civilisation. All in all it was a very fun & interesting xmas, sooo different to anything Ive ever done & will ever do im sure, makes a nice change from sitting & watching xmas eastenders thats for sure!! Also everyone's in the same boat in terms of being away from home & stuff so as much I missed my mum it wasn't bad, plus I miss my mum all the time so xmas doesn't make any difference!

Lots of love

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