Magnetised

Trip Start Sep 20, 2007

Trip End Sep 20, 2008

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Magnums

Flag of Australia Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia
Sunday, June 1, 2008

We drove to a lovely town called Townsville looking for the port to go to the Magnetic Islands. After getting lost a couple of times, Craig found it, as he took to the street with a bag of bananas and returned with a magazine. With only ten mins to spare to the next Ferry, called Fantaseas. So all aboard and off to find a great hostel on this little island. First place was Horseshoe bay were the hostel we wanted was knocked down. Not a good start then off to our second choice Koala Village where you sleep with Koalas and Alligators. But no room at the Inn for 14 of us. Then next was Magnums no problem they took us in when no one else would. As per usual paid before we saw the rooms and rented our linen.
We went up to our rooms and just couldn't believe how bad they were. They smelt worse than Conors shorts. Bit of Dirt as Grahmo would say. So a lot of rum, Mount Gay if you will, was bought and we headed down to to a very nice little cove where the stars were clear as day

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. Powers educated us on what star was what. Everything was up side down as you would expect being in Australia.
We saw signs for a Table Quiz in our hostel. So we entered two teams. The first team the Trapdoortonys who recon they were a bit of big shot team. In this team were Eoin, Conor, Sarah and Craig. Then the other team consisted of Doni, Clive, Laura, Elaine, Jenny, Caoimhe, Powers and the brains Grahmo. Now a few Nippy Sweeties were had before and during the quiz so it got quite competitive. The Goonies were ahead by two at half time but like a true Irish manager The Trapdoortonys brought it back to equalise. Neither team won but chars were thrown and hats got stuck on the roof in the biggest game of rock, paper, and scissors ever played which Grahmo got to the final and in his goonie state only entered half way through. Bit of Matchbox on the duke box and some drunken pool.
Back to the beach for a sing song until we were ready for bed.
The next day we went to the koala hostel where we got to hold a snake, alligator, Cockatoo, lizard and boob grabbing Koala where we were hustled into getting a photo taken with, Keep grahmo happy. The hustler was a friend of Steve Irwin's, Legend in our books.
We flash packed the shit out of dinner that night but it was quite tasty so all was well and we headed back to the smelly hostel for drinks and stories

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. Jenny and powers told a whopper but then it happened Grahmo spoke after 5 litres of wine. His story started with I was walking along eating a super split, the Vanilla part first (is that possible I ask). Then he went on to say he used to get free crisps at the end of a Garden, where his crossroads in Boston were. This was the spot where there was a hairdresser and a garage where he was held up but that's another story. At this point we were laughing very hard then sitting in his chair with his legs crossed like some sort of talk show host he tuned to us and this he did say. "What am I talking about again" The place erupted because no one had a clue, Some one then said its supposed to be about you most embarrassing moment, He then said "o yea o yea, so I was eating a super split", and to everyone's amazement he had started again.. People were literally pissing themselves at this stage. After all that this is how the story ended. He knew a guy that could get cheap flights to Boston off his Dad and he spat Super split all over some girls tits that may or may not be a nurse. Someone write a book on that man. After all that it was time for bed. Laura did the usual bed swopping and then it was lights out.
Next morning we had a good breakfast and headed on to Airly Beach.