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It's been a while since my last post, internet access has been quite limited over the last week or so. I ended up in Cairns for about 10 days, basically met a cool gropu of people and spent far too much time going out with them and stayed until they left Cairns too. I got a lift down to Mission Beach with a girl in my dorm who had bought a car. We also did a day trip up to Cape Tribulation, rainforest, beaches, rivers to swim in etc.
Mission beach was a much needed 3 days of relaxing and detoxing. Just sat around sunbathing, playing poker and having a bbq every night!
On Saturday I got the bus down to Townsville and then the ferry over to Magnetic Island. The plan was just for 3 nights here, however the gropu has now expanded more and we have all decided to stayfor a week so we get to experience Fri nights full moon party. The island is a small place with not much to do - can see it in a day easily - so most of us have got jobs in the hostel, 3 hours per day cleaning (more just strollig round picking up a bit of rubbish etc whilst with my top off and working on the tan). For this I get free accomodation and plenty of free food and booze. Me and another guy, Adam from Guernsey, have also got some cash in hand labouringjobs at a hotel nearby which is being refurbished. So basically I'm not spending a penny at the moment - much needed after Cairns! We had a big night on Sat when we all arrived. Sunday hired this awesome open topped pink little car for the day and saw all the island. Got back thinking it's sunday night it'll be a quiet one. However it was an underwear party and one of the girls had kindly purchased nappies for us boys to wear. I might put photos up! There was about 30 boys and girls all in various forms of underwear, had to do a catwalk... unfortunately I didn't win. However the audience of porb over 100 people all cheering loved it! Spent the next day doing a massive walk to recover, hiked over the mountain in the middle of the island and then up to some WW2 gun forts. Got back to find that everybody was already in the bar and the staff were deciding to give us free beer. The night finished with about 20 people all in the sea!
Having a bit of a detox now till Friday, plenty of running on the beach, and earning some money. The other bonuis of working is we get free entry to the full moon party friday and no doubt plenty of free beer too. Just hope I manage to stay awake to see the sunrise the next morning!
More photos to follow tomorrow hopefully
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