Yeeha!!
Trip Start
Aug 24, 2007
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Trip End
Apr 08, 2008
Hervey Bay,
Australia
Friday, January 4, 2008
Time for another quick update. So.......Hope you all had a fantastic new year! Mine was brilliant!! We boarded our boat, the Freight Train, and got sailing! The weather was perfect which was a huge bonus (even the crew were surprised because it had been so bad!!) We got to do loads of snorkelling trips in our sexy stinger-suits (the jellyfish here can kill you in under 3 minutes - argh!!) so we were all covered up and even wore hoods; man, we looked cool......!! We saw some turtles which was fun and I also had the pleasure -and SUPRISE - of seeing a shark swimming about 2 metres underneath me. I was really excited, looked up to tell Carlien and Tony (or anyone who was nearby for that matter!!) then completely freaked out when I realised I'd swam really far out and was away from everyone else! It was brilliant though! :) Me and Carlien later also spotted a giant napolean maori wrasse, and honestly it was HUGE!! That was quite a nice little spot to add to our list of underwater friends :)
A bit later on the boat I spotted some dolphins too which absolutely made my day!! All-in-all it was a brilliant New Years. That night we stopped off at South Molle Island for a party, and I got to call home which was nice (I was NOT drunk thank you very much!!) and then got back on the boat. We spent the majority of the time chilling out on deck and singing along to our captain playing the guitar. It was just perfect :)
After our sailing trip we headed to Kroombit Cattle Station which was one of the funnest places I've been in Australia. I can now crack a whip (and I have the bruises on my arm to prove it!!) ride a mechanical bull (well I can't, but I tried......!!) and best of all, lassoo a goat in just 45 seconds!! Get in!! It was so much fun! I also felt what its like to be poked with a cattle prod which was..........ummm...........interesting!! I had such fun at Kroombit, I was quite sad to leave! We're now at Hervey Bay where we have been informed that we will not be able to go to Fraser Island as it's been evacuated because of a second cyclone warning. Anyone who has been to Oz and done Fraser Island will realise what a tragedy this is!! :( It can't be helped though, such is life. We will probably be moving to Rainbow Beach tomorrow and then continuing down south to Brisbane, so I'm very excited about that!
Anyway, that's pretty much all the goss guys! Hope everyone is good there, a massive Happy Birthday to Kev and Lisa!! Hope you guys have a great day!! Can't wait to see you both when I'm back!
Loads of love and hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
