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G'day dudes and dudettes!! 6 months in OZ and still lovin it! It seems like forever since I last updated this blog so I'll try not to write too much!!
So the last blog I was back in Noosa after having fun on Frazer Island! I left there two months ago, with my wallet once again E M P T Y and headed straight to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast to try and find some work. I stayed around there for a couple of weeks and didn't really get up to much so when I had enough of Chavs and French girls I jumped on a bus to Byron Bay. As soon as I arrived I went for a surf and had a walk round. Its a small town and so chilled out I really wanted to stay for a couple of months but so did everyone else who was passing through so I didn't manage to find any work. The whole time I was there, everyone was going on about how sharky it was which wasn't cool! One morning I went surfing with 2 of my room mates and we saw a BIG shark about 30m away from us, then the fin came up again and it was swimming towards us. That's when we all grabbed our boards and ran on water!! It was more funny than anything listening to the other two lads screaming and shouting! We stood at the shore for a few minutes and decided to go back out!! Then it was like the whole ocean came alive when Whales and Dolphins started splashing about all over the place. The day before I also had a turtle come up for air right next to me!! I love this country!!
I was sharing a room with 5 other English dudes who argued like a bunch of girls, even when we went surfing they were still arguing! The backpackers was cool and pretty much on the beach. Anyway, 3 of them decided to head down to Sydney so I packed my bags and jumped in with them... ROAD TRIP!! This is one of the things I most wanted to do in Oz and it was better than I imagined. We took 5 days doing the trip stopping off to surf at some of the most spectacular, mind blowing spots along the way with hardly any other people in the water!! One night we had a fire on the beach and slept out under the stars. We woke up at 6am and the waves were pumping so we went straight in!! Just two of us surfing a break in a national park. Words can't explain how AWESOME it was and no sharks this time!!
We arrived in Sydney, all a bit rough round the edges and stinky. We booked into a backpackers in Bondi Beach which is a cool place but so many people in the water its mad. I stayed there for a week and then I hooked up with my crazy Aussie mate Daniel and now I'm staying at his place and enjoying him Mum's cooking... so much better than 2minute noodles!
Last weekend I went wakeboarding with Daniel and his mates behind a bad ass power boat. They were all egging me on cos they wanted to see a 'faceslap' or an 'eyeball washer'. It didn't take long for me to deliver and I hit my face so hard on the water my nose was bleeding!! Check the videos out!
Sydney is much cooler than I thought it would be and there's so much to do and see. BUT I'm back to 5am wake up calls and digging holes so the fun stuff is just on weekends now for a while!!
I'll end it there now cos dinner's ready!! Not sure where I'm heading next to end my trip in Oz but I want to end it in style so keep watchin!!
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