Thursday 7th May

After a chilled night the night before, we all woke up early and jumped in our vans for the massive 877km drive to airlie beach. I took us all day and we stopped for lunch in bundaberg where a few of us ate a 1kg steak each! After lunch one of our windows in van just suddenly shattered which was pretty annoying as we had glass everywhere (it wasnt slaters fault! Well apparently). But we eventually got to airlie beach at about 9pm after a good 12 hour drive!! It was a pretty awesome drive though i think i ended up doing 650km. When we got to airlie we checked into a hostel, got on the goon and tequila and headed out. We ended up in mamas which was pretty awesome, after a quite a lot of jager bombs and drop bears we headed back to the hostel grabbing to find slater passed out, we abused him a little as is usually the case with whoever passes out and then hit the hay a 6 am.

Friday 8th May

We all woke up at 9 am to leave the hostel and go check in for our whitsunday trip feeling either still drunk or a little worse for wear!! After checking in we went for a really nice lunch at a restaurant called barracuda's looking over the whitsunday islands, the weather wasnt all that great though which was a shame but there's not much u can do about that. We got onto our boat later on in the afternoon and set sail around the whitsundays. We moored up for the night had some steak, learnt some songs of the peagasus, played some drinking games and then went to bed. it was a goos evening but we were all tired and hungover so we didnt egt on it that hard.

Saturday 9th May

We woke up to some slighlty nicer weather and set sail straight for whitehaven beach, i hadnt slept all that well though as me and marcus had to share a bed which i literally didnt fit in and it was next to the engine and the heat of a sauna! we got to whitehaven beach, walked up to the look out point, took some photos and took in the view of possibly one of the nicest bays in the world! We then headed down to the beach for a little game of touch and a chill in the crystal clear sea with the amazingly white, fine sand below. We headed back to the boat for some lunch and then headed around to another bay where we did a little bit of snorkelling and a few backflips off the boat, my target of doing 100 on the whole trip was a stupid idea and i only eneded up doing 15! after an afternoon of snorkelling we chilled out with a few beers as the sun went down then had some roast beef for summer and got ready for the GOON OLYMPICS. These were a wide aray of games organised by the crew, it was awesome although our team ended up loosing but it was all a good laugh. After this we had a rather heavy evenings drinking with the crew, gareth had a rather amusing evening with a large german girl called oodle, we managed to get a photo which i think was the best photo of gap year so far but gareth ended up deleting it which was a shame. Anyways we eventually got to bed very very late.

Sunday 10th May

We were all woken up far to early to go snorkelling again, we were all quite hungover and this just wasnt what we needed so a sleep in the hammock sorted me out. We got back into port at around 2 and chilled out all afternoon in airlie as we are leaving to go to cairns tomorrow.