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I finally have something to write about after bein here for nearly 4 months now... so kick back, roll a fat one and listen up!!
After digging holes and sweeping up for 3 weeks in Brisbane I managed to save up enough dollars to make like a banana and split, or make like a tree and leave, or make like a sheep and get the flock out of there... ok that's not funny so I'll move on!!
I flew up to Cairns and stayed in a really cool backpackers called Tropic days. I arrived at 1am so I had to go on a mission to find the key and a map to my room which was 'hidden' in the letter box... the adventure begins!! I just chilled for the first day and walked round Cairns thinking about what to do and where to go... then it started to rain!! So I made a trip up to Cape Tribulation for a couple of days to go check out the rainforest and the Crocs along the river Daintree which was pretty cool. The final day I wanted to go for a massive hike but it rained and rained and rained and rained and when I asked the girl in the shop what was going on with the weather she pointed out the fact that "its a rainforest and it rains here"... "Well thanks for that golden nugget of advice and by the way, you're ugly" is what I replied!!
I sat around all morning swapping 'where've you been stories' with some other dudes and dudettes and went back down to Cairns later on that day. I Stayed there for another night and decided to head down the coast to Mission beach. That place is really nice but not much to do. Plus the backpackers I stayed at was not so happening so I booked a trip to Sail round the Whitsundays and 4x4ing on Fraser Island and left the next day to Airlie beach.
I met some French people on the coach on the way down who were booked onto the same trip so that was cool! The trip lasted for 3 days and 2 nights and I would have loved to have carried on sailing for another few days as the weather was perfect and the scenery was spectacular! We stopped off at one of the islands for a few hours which was the closest thing to paradise I've ever seen but I'll let the photos speak for themselves! I don't think I've ever seen so many shooting stars too and I ran out of things to wish for!! We had a bit of a party on the boat which was good fun. When we went to bed the wind really picked up so the skipper decided to move to a more sheltered spot at 2 in the morning!! Luckily no one was really drunk otherwise there could have been a few shout outs to 'Hughey' as it got really rough for a couple of hours! The last day there was enough wind to drop the sails for a couple of hours which was so cool!!
Back to dry land and I headed off to Hervey Bay to go do Fraser Island!! There were 10 of us packed into the 4x4 and I got to do most of the driving which was awesome!! We camped both nights on a campsite but it would have been cool to have camped on the beach!! The itinerary was a bit too rushed on the first day as we didn't have much time to chill out at each place along the way, but the second day was cool and had loads more time or maybe just less things to see! The evenings we had bbqs and beers which was good fun but everyone went to bed pretty early so it wasn't too crazy!! Its cool to see that even with so many people going there every day with their 4x4s its still really well kept! The waves were pretty awesome too, but there are loads of hungry sharks so no swimming or surfing allowed!!
I've come back to Noosa and just gonna chill here for a few days and plan my next move and hopefully get loads of surfing in along the way!! I'm loving being back on the road again, but time is going too fast!!
In a while crocodiles!! xx
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