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After Frazer, I went straight on to Noosa Heads, the sunshine coast for a 3 day canoe trip. And boy oh boy do i regret doing that. I stayed in a Bush Camp the night before the trip .. the bedrooms were shacks with no doors.. therefore no key deposit :-) There was a sink built in the tree to brush your teeth with. The toilet was basically a whole in the ground and stunk! This was all a glimpse of what was to come.
I was the only person from an English speaking country. There was 4 boys from Denmark, 2 girls from Ferro Island and 2 Dutch boys, or Amsterdam boys as I was calling them all week.. ( I do this a lot don't I?) All lovely people but I didnt speak Danish, unfortunately. Learnt a few words though!!
So that morning, we had to canoe 7km accross a lake- this was a very windy wet day, so by the time we got to our first point we were slightly unimpressed. I was in a canoe with two others, and as we had to carry all our stuff on the canoe it was very heavy and leaned slightly to the right.. And of course the waves were coming in on the right. By the time we realised that we were going to sink it was too late, and we did. Sink. So we were wet and tired and filthy. Of course I was in hysterics. I was laughing so much I couldn't move. And Christian, one of the Danes was stomping off with the canoe not impressed that I was crying with laughter.. which made me shriek even more .. and me laughing set Mariann off.. anyway, i eventually recomposed..
Canoed 7 more km to our camp base. We left at 10.30am got there at 5pm. It was supposed to take 3 hours? Gema and Pete were there (from Magnetic Island) so that night we drank goon (disgusting cheap kinda like wine but not drink) and played drinking games. Had a stinker of a headache all next day. Canoed up the lake which i did not want to do and walked 11km to the sand dunes - which was beautiful i grant it that, but id run out of water and was exhausted! Then walked 11km back then had to canoe 7 km back to camp. AGH!
Didnt drink that night. Got up early next day, i mean like half 4 early. The danes say half 5 but mean half 4. So we left camp at half past 5am (i thought it was 6.30) and got back down the river and accross the horrid windy lake at 9.20am.
Oh and i also got eaten alive by 200 million mosquitos. Well not really but you know what I mean.. my back is covered in bites.. the tent was filthy and wet coz it was raining for the 3 days.. and it felt like a little piece of heaven when I finally got to civilisation and had a hot soapy shower.. it was the best thing ever- never take a shower for granted. The hostel we stayed in (me, Mariann and Birita) was fantastic. They were apartments with kitchen, own bathroom and pool. Wish I stayed there longer.
So there concludes my experience... And i do not want to see a canoe ever again.. but im happy i did it. Ish.
xxxx
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