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Poor Cow
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Just a lil note to say weyyyheyyy! I'm at the end of my Australia trip! 1 week left then off to New Zealand. I arrived here, in Cairns, this morning after ANOTHER shocking (but my last) Greyhound journey. I have been quite lucky on these buses to be honest, in the sense that I always got a window seat on the over night buses! But I think I'll just tell you the little story that happened to us last night...
Driving along, at around half 1 in the morning, shortly after stopping at Townsville and picking up some more passengers- we all get woken up with a start and feel the coach swerve. God knows what was happening- I thought. Apparantly we had hit a cow. Not a kangaroo or anything quite Australian- but a cow. There wasn't really a big bump and we all didn't jerk forwards- it kinda felt like a bird hitting the windscreen. So the driver pulls over and gets out of the bus to have a look at the damage, and he's fully smashed up one of the spot lights and the windscreen is cracked. We're all sitting there for about 45 minutes, getting quite annoyed that we're not moving on. (Don't know where the cow was, but it turned out it wasn't dead!) We wern't moving on, because by smashing on of those spot lights had tripped ALL the lights to the bus, side lights, headlights, mainbeam... the lot. Nothing was working. The bus driver and his co Greyhound worker (who was also on our bus at the time) were on the phone to god knows who, messing with the circuit boards, flipping with switches here and there. But no, still no lights. The police turn up, and we end up trailing them at a low speed with no lights on, following their blue and red flashing lights to a safe pullover point.
While we're following the police, we go past the place where we hit the cow and there's a couple of trucks, a car, another police car and an fire truck. It turned out that the cow had wandered back onto the road again and someone else had hit him after us! Poor cow. Was his own fault though eh!
The bus driver informs us that another Greyhound bus will be sent out from Townsville and we have to all get off that one and get ALL our luggage and pack it onto the new one. He said 20 minutes. By this time we were stopped for an hour, it ended up being 4am when we started moving again when the replacement bus turned up. So up I rocked at Cairns this morning, a little after 9am (should have been 6am), but I guess it is a more sensible time to arrive! It was a picture at the time, 3am and half of the bus sitting out on the side of the highway, loads of passing trucks having a good nose at us.
I can't check in until 2pm today.... gayyyyyy.... I'm so tired, feel like I've hardly slept.
I can't wait for Kate to arrive tomorrow, it's gonna be nice to just have a friend! And not have to worry about making any for a change and having that same same same conversation with a newbie. Yeyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
Ciao for now... last blog for Oz next week just before I go!
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