Mission Beach to Rainbow Beach!!!
Trip Start
Jan 16, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 06, 2008
Rainbow Beach,
Australia
Friday, February 29, 2008
I've had the most amazing couple of weeks! Firstly i traveled from Mission Beach to Townsville and got the ferry over to Magnetic Island. Magnetic Island was wicked! I stayed at base backpackers, which is basically just a party place! Had a completely wicked time! Whilst i was there I'm sure one of the people who used to be in jeopardy was there at the same time! but no one who i was with knew what i was going on about so i just looked a bit like an idiot! lol! Whilst i was there we all hired a little pink Barbie car, which was so funny. Me, Rob, Deves and Nehal went in it first and just drove around the island. It was so funny watching 3 guys driving around in a pink topless car! Got to see some wicked places on the island though. Towards the end of my stay there the rain started, and wen i say rain i mean torrential rain!!!! not good. Because of the rain the buses weren't running, so we all got stuck in Townsville for a night! It ended up being a really good night out though, because we met up with Naomi, Rachael, Nonnie and Becky again. Then we all ended up traveling together down to Airlie Beach. On the way to Airlie it just rained all the way, and when we were about 10 minutes out we came across a "road closed" sign so we had to turn around and go a different route. then we came across another stupid "road closed" sign, but there were cars coming the other way so the bus driver just drove round it! lol! Now there isn't much to do in Airlie Beach except for the Whitsundays and drink. Now i didn't really want to do the boat thing so yeah! all i did was drink. i did a little shopping as well! but its like what else are you meant to do when your in the middle of a cyclone!!!! lol! was totally wicked. I got a makeover from Naomi, which looked sick! i had poofy hair and everything! whilst we were there we met even more funky people. Nick got kicked out of Magnums for pissing on some girls bed when he was drunk! tres funny!!! lol!
From Airlie i went to Hervey Bay. the bus journey took 14 hours, which was a complete nightmare. and of course i was in the front seat so every time the door opened the stupid lights came on so i couldn't get any sleep!!!!!!! it sucked. In Hervey Bay i stayed at Wool shed Backpackers, which was so nice except for the fact that there was no air con in my room so it was stupidly hot!!! yucky! It was a really nice place though, just really relaxed with a cute TV/ kitchen room thing, where a possum lives! so cute! After 2 nights i moved over the road to palace backpackers for a night and then went to Fraser Island!
Now if anyone is thinking about going to Australia you have to do the self-drive Fraser island thing! It's amazing! I did it with an amazing group, who i knew so that made it even better. It's so weird, you can just drive down the beaches and down sand tracks. At some points you feel as if the 4WD is going to roll over, but because we had the best drivers ever we were alright. Go Deves and Nehal!!!! Camping on Fraser was so weird, because you pretty much camp on the beach, it's sick!!!! Our camp on the first night was just basic, but our camp on the second night was immense. We had the tents in a semi-circle around a little communal area, which we made from 3 tarpaulin sheets tied to trees! It was like making bivies again! lol! We had so much fun drinking way too much goon and beer and of course i had some UDL vodka drinks too. We did see some of the island as well. Lake Wabby, Lake MacKenzie, and the shipwreck were so cool! I'm not going to explain them too much, because you have to see them for yourselves to understand just how amazing they are. To be honest we did run out of food on the island, but at least we only spent like $12-13 on food each, where as the other group from Palace spent like $24 each on food for 3 days!!!! Flash packers or what!!!!!!
Anyhow! We had one night in Hervey when we got back from Fraser. It just ended up being a big piss up! again! We headed down to Beaches, where Nonnie stole a bar mat cuz i said he wouldn't be able to do it! But by the end of the night we were all dancing on the tables again! Twas rather fun! lol! When we got back to the hostel for some reason we decided to go swimming. Don't ask why, I don't know. Looking back on it, it probably wasn't a good idea because we had a load of stuff stolen out of our room whilst we were in the pool! It sucked!! Luckily i only had my oz phone stolen. But all together we had 3 phones, 2 cameras and 2 purses stolen! People suck!!!!!
After Hervey we went to Rainbow beach, which is possibly one of the dullest places on earth!!!!! One good point about it is the sand blow, which is kinda weird. You look at the sand and it's one colour and then you dig down a little bit and it's a completely different colour! Mental! Although the place was pretty dull, we made the most of it by drinking quite a lot, again! lol! Had a few funky cocktails in the bar in Fraser's on Rainbow. They were pretty cool! And of course i had to suggest shots! So i had a weird thing with vodka, midouri and some blue stuff and Becky had a cock sucking cowboy!! so yeah i was pretty drunk that night! Now I'm heading down to Noosa, where there's a surf festival going on! Pretty cool!
I'll write again soon!
Love b! xxxx
