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On the boat to the mainland we bumped into James, who we met in Cairns, it turns out that he had booked on the same Whitsunday and Fraser Islands trips as us so will be spending the next few weeks together.
At around 3pm we arrived at Airlie beach and had to walk back up the road the bus had gone down to get to Koalas Hostel, as with our Island package we get 4 nights free accommodation at selected hostels. After a small problem of not being booked in we finally all three of us managed to get in a dorm together.
We had a walk along the main road where everything is in the town and we checked in to the Whitsunday trip which leaves from the port at Airlie. James visited a happy herb shop that sells at legal leaves called an alternative high, but after sampling he sampled the goods we decided to have a drink in one of the local bars, well we had been detoxing for the past 5 or so nights.
We called in at subway on the way home for our tea, a lovely foot long beef sandwich, and
also purchased some goon, cheap wine. We sat outside drinking and were joined by two of our room mates who were a coupe, called George (female) and Chris. They were so boring, to be honest Chris didn't seem that bad but oh my days George was shocking. We had to drink the majority of our goon to tolerate them, thank God they left the following morning!
On Monday we had another lazy day, we were in no rush to get up so we decided to watch TV in bed, not that there was anything interesting on. I was the first to get peckish so got up and did the 5 minute walk to the kitchen and brought back peanut butter on toast for the three of us. The toasters however were pants, one didn't work at all whilst in order to get the other one to work i had to constantly hold down the lever, which didn't have a handle just a piece sharp metal and if that was bad enough it only toasted one side at a time, nightmare. So fairs fair i got to have the hot toast and decided that it was someone else could do it tomorrow.
Once we finally headed out doors all we did was go to the lagoon (another man made beach) to chill out, it wasn't quite sunbathing weather when we left so we didn't bother putting on a bikini, but once we got there the sun came out and it was lovely, typical. We debated whether we should go back and get changed but our hostel was at the opposite side of town, so we decided to stay as we were and read.
On our arrival back at the hostel we discovered a new room mate, Linna from Germany, a lovely girl who was extremely pretty, i think James developed a soft spot for her! On the Whitsunday trip you can only bring a small bag on board, so it took Erica and I a short while to determine what were essentials for the trip and what we could live without for the next two nights. James however did it in 5 seconds flat, he hardly took a thing, instead opting to sleep in the same clothes that he was going to wear, that actually turned out to be his motto.
After all packing had been done we had a few drinks with Linna who was also going sailing the following day. Part way through the evening we were propositioned by a drug dealer who wanted to sell James some cannabis, he looked really dodgy, very skinny and had cold sweats. I nipped to the toilet and on my return discovered that he now only had one leg, which after a few glasses of goon confused me a little as i was sure he has two legs earlier. As it turns out he had taken his prosthesis off whilst i was away and was telling every one the story of how it had happened. To cut a long story short, bum bum .. at around 15yrs old he decided that it would be a good idea to do a Indiana Jones and go train surfing (for those i work with this story will sound familiar), needless to stay Harrison Ford did a much better job and this guy ended up under the wheels of the train, his mates leaving him for dead. The worst part of the story was when he told us that he intended to sue the train company for not having adequate fencing around the station, the bloody cheek! After about half an hour he finally left us in peace, after giving his mumbled theory on de ja vu, which to be quite honest confused every one of us!
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