Bundaberg Sucks
Trip Start
Jan 03, 2008
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Trip End
Mar 15, 2008
Bundaberg,
Australia
Friday, February 15, 2008
It rained the entire day. From taking my clothes out of the car and bring them into the cabin I got completely soaked
Rum
. It was insane how much it was raining. We had all bought tickets to go to a turtle rockery and watch baby turtle hatch and waddle down to the beach. I was really really looking forward to it, but when it started getting dark I could see no possible way we could drive the 10km to the beach without drowning. So we decided to skip it (and good thing too because it had been cancelled without us knowing). The cabin at least had cable and it was dry. Max slept on the sofa and I slept on a mat on the floor. Our car was leaking really bad. I was so thankful that we were in the cabin. The next day it was still raining. We all slept in til about 11 and ate lunch and got ready to go into town. The only thing that seemed of any interest were some mystery craters about 20km out of town. There are supposedly the rements of a meteor. So we drove out there and were about to see them when we realized it costed $6 each to get into the place. There was no way it was worth $6 to see some rock, so I left the gift shop and started sneaking around the place. There was a 5 foot wall between me and the craters so being 6 feet tall I just stuck my head over and took some pictures. Max took it a step farther and walked around the fence, past a sign that said no trespassing, and walked a few feet into the place. Everyone was ready to go, so I started honking the horn telling Max to hurry up, but being the idiot that he is, he kept going. I drove up to him and he finally hopped in the car. We started driving away when a guy flagged us down. He apparently was the owner and he had seen Max sneaking around behind the no trespassing zone. He treatened to call the police and have us arrested if Max did not pay. So, Max had to go in and pay. He took my camera and got good pictures, but there was no way that place was worth $6.
After that we headed to an art gallary and I painted a self portrait of myself, which was horrible
Chinese Cabin
. Max and I each ate an entire chicken. We called someone who told us that again the turtle rockery was closed because of flooding within the park. We all played card games which was fun but by 9pm I was ready to see some turtles, which was the main reason that I came to Bundaberg. We decided that we were going to sneak into the turtle place and find the turtles ourselves. We brought Allie and Portia with us and headed to the park at 9:30. It was still pouring so I wore only my swimming trunks because anything else would get wet anyway. We snuck into the park and walked for about 10 minutes down the road, through a turtle info center, and onto the beach. It was so winding and scary. We walked up and down the beach looking at turtle nesting boxes but didn't find anything. I was expecting to see hundreds, if not thousands, of baby turtles and we couldn't find anything. We headed back, dejected. As we walked along the road a car pulled up and flashed its headlights on us. Instantly, Max and I jumped into the ditch and layed motionless. Whoever was in the car got out and started walking around. Max swore he saw a dog. After about 5 minutes they hopped back in the car and drove away. About 5 minutes later we were walking along the road that had overflown because of a creek. There was maybe a foot of water on the road, so we certainly weren't very discrete plowing through the water and we saw another pair of headlights. I instantly dived into the ditch which was full of disgusting swamp water
Mystery Craters
. We waited there for a few minutes until that car left and we sprinted the final few minutes back up to the car. It was a complete failure of a mission. Woke up the next morning and packed up the car to leave. The road to the next town we wanted to visit (the town of 1770) was blocked because of flooding, but hopefully we can make it.
Turtle watching was once again cancelled today. We found out that the road was still blocked and now we couldn't even go any farther because the town of Mackay had recieved 2 feet of rain in 6 hours and was completely flooded. So we were stranded. Still raining, we snuck into 3 movies at the Bundaberg theature. Jumper, 27 dresses, and Definetly Maybe, all good flicks. They were supposed to cost $12.70 each, rediculous indeed. Slept in the movie theather parkng lot, all 3 of us in the car. We bought a tarp to keep the rain out of the car which worked quite well at directing wind into the car and keeping us cool.
