30th November 2008
Sailing away
Day 54
Off sailing today on a Whitsundays cruise. Spent the morning chilling out with Tom, then off on my boat the Matador.
It was cool. I went scuba diving in the fringe areas of the Great Barrier Reef. When I got in the water, I was shocked by all the coral, colours and fish. Never did I expect it would be this good. Then 2 giant turtles swan past. It was fab!
Spent the evening playing card games with some people on the boat. It was so hot in the sleeping areas though, like an oven. I didn;t last long before taking my pillow and sleeping on the deck.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Day 53 Ill
29th November 2008
Ill
Day 53
Not feeling too well today. Everyone went to the lagoon and I stayed in the hostel. God I felt ill. I had drunk some goon last night but only a little - it doesn't matter though as goon is evil. It made me feel ill. Evil, evil goon.
Most people in the room stayed in this evening due to being sick of drinking or early departures in the morning. There's a tv in the room so we watched Jurassic Park and Team America.
Ill
Day 53
Not feeling too well today. Everyone went to the lagoon and I stayed in the hostel. God I felt ill. I had drunk some goon last night but only a little - it doesn't matter though as goon is evil. It made me feel ill. Evil, evil goon.
Most people in the room stayed in this evening due to being sick of drinking or early departures in the morning. There's a tv in the room so we watched Jurassic Park and Team America.
Day 52 Walking around Airlie
28th November 2008
Walking around Airlie
Day 52
Tom and I walked to Coles (a supermarket like Tesco). It took quite a while and was so humid that when we got there, the air conditioning was like a God send. Spent quite a while in there just walking around.
We played the longest game of 'would you rather' on the way back to the hostel with questions like 'would you rather have human size chicken feet or chicken size human feet?'. Obviously it would be human size chicken feet, I think so anyway.
Walking around Airlie
Day 52
Tom and I walked to Coles (a supermarket like Tesco). It took quite a while and was so humid that when we got there, the air conditioning was like a God send. Spent quite a while in there just walking around.
We played the longest game of 'would you rather' on the way back to the hostel with questions like 'would you rather have human size chicken feet or chicken size human feet?'. Obviously it would be human size chicken feet, I think so anyway.
Day 51 Airlie Beach
27th November 2008
Airlie Beach
Day 51
Got to Airlie Beach at 6am. Not able to check into the hostel until 12pm so had a walk around for a while then went back to the hostel and fell asleep on a bench like a tramp.
Chilled out in Airlie and went to some bars with Tom and JD, who are staying in my room.
Left a bar at 1:30am (I'd been on diet cokes after still not being able to drink alcohol since Fraser Island) and went for a swim in the lagoon til 4:30am, which was so cool.
Airlie Beach
Day 51
Got to Airlie Beach at 6am. Not able to check into the hostel until 12pm so had a walk around for a while then went back to the hostel and fell asleep on a bench like a tramp.
Chilled out in Airlie and went to some bars with Tom and JD, who are staying in my room.
Left a bar at 1:30am (I'd been on diet cokes after still not being able to drink alcohol since Fraser Island) and went for a swim in the lagoon til 4:30am, which was so cool.
Day 50 Myella Farmstay 2nd day
26th November 2008
Myella Farmstay
Day 50
We had the chance of riding the horses again this morning. As we were waiting for everyone to get prepared for the horse riding I realised that I wasn't too enthusiastic about it. The Dutch guy wasn't riding today. I asked him why and he said he didn't feel too good riding the horses and felt a bit shakey.
To be honest, yesterday I found sitting on a horse for a few hours trotting around alright, but once is enough. Twice would be boring. The thing was I felt really bad and a little ungrateful. It was like I felt I should do it, but didn't want to. So I decided not to go. I told the farmer man (the one with 2 eyes) and asked what could I do instead. He said anything. The Dutch guy and I said we'd go out on the motorbikes, and as there was two of us we could go around the acres of farm surrounding the main farm.
I told the Dutch guy that I didn't want to go horse riding as I found it a bit boring and he said he didn't want to go for the same reason too but he didn't want to say it. We went speeding off and it was fun. On going around the track, I thought 'I can do this faster' and ended up in the grass.
A group of us left Myella farm and went back to Rockhampton. Then I had a 6.5 hour wait for my Greyhound coach to Airlie Beach. Selena, a girl who was at Myella is getting a coach a little after mine has departed so instead of sitting around doing nothing we went to the cinema to see the film Australia. It was good, Nicole Kidman was so funny in it.
It all worked out with pretty good timing - and now off to Airlie Beach.
Myella Farmstay
Day 50
We had the chance of riding the horses again this morning. As we were waiting for everyone to get prepared for the horse riding I realised that I wasn't too enthusiastic about it. The Dutch guy wasn't riding today. I asked him why and he said he didn't feel too good riding the horses and felt a bit shakey.
To be honest, yesterday I found sitting on a horse for a few hours trotting around alright, but once is enough. Twice would be boring. The thing was I felt really bad and a little ungrateful. It was like I felt I should do it, but didn't want to. So I decided not to go. I told the farmer man (the one with 2 eyes) and asked what could I do instead. He said anything. The Dutch guy and I said we'd go out on the motorbikes, and as there was two of us we could go around the acres of farm surrounding the main farm.
I told the Dutch guy that I didn't want to go horse riding as I found it a bit boring and he said he didn't want to go for the same reason too but he didn't want to say it. We went speeding off and it was fun. On going around the track, I thought 'I can do this faster' and ended up in the grass.
A group of us left Myella farm and went back to Rockhampton. Then I had a 6.5 hour wait for my Greyhound coach to Airlie Beach. Selena, a girl who was at Myella is getting a coach a little after mine has departed so instead of sitting around doing nothing we went to the cinema to see the film Australia. It was good, Nicole Kidman was so funny in it.
It all worked out with pretty good timing - and now off to Airlie Beach.
Day 49 Myella Farm stay
25th November 2008
Myella Farm
Day 49
6:30am - bus to Myella. Myella is a farm stay place that I booked through the jostel last night. Got there in the morning and today I rode a horse called Trigger. Was trotting along but I don't know what I'm doing.
Later that day we got to go on the motorbikes. This is more my thing! There was a speed limit of 35km per hour, but once I passed my little test and deemed good enough to ride around the farm I got it over 60km per hour. Loved it!
Later that day I was about to start driving on my own again but when I started the bike fell on me. Luckily no one saw.
There was a man in charge of the farm. He had one eye. The other eye was missing and his eyelids had folded inwards but were slightly open. When the normal eye blinked, the eyelids of the other blinked a little too.
In the afternoon, I fed some chickens and milked a cow.
At the farm they had 2 parrots too. One they rescued from a fence and it had half a wing on one side. It was a bit manky. The other bird was the most ugly bird I have ever seen in my life. It had beak and feather disease. It couldn't fly but just walked around the dining area and in and out of its cage. Some people said it was cute, they must have been crazy. Look at this-
Day 48 Crocodile Farm
24th November 2008
Rockhampton and Crocodile Farm
Day 48
Had a great nights sleep and have transferred to a girls dorm room for tonight. There were some English girls in the room and we went to a crocodile farm today. At the croc farm they breed the crocodiles and are Gucci's main supplier of croc skin apparently.
The guy who was doing the tour got in the enclosures with the crocodiles and fed them. Crazy man.
Then I went to the Botanical Gardens and Rockhampton Zoo. There wasn't much there to be honest but it was nice. Waited for the last bus back to the centre of Rockhampton but it never turned up so had to get a taxi.
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