so we arrived in airlie beach at about 8pm today after leaving krombit at 7am this morning. only (!) ment to be a 10 hour drive, our bus broke down. Squatter (our driver, i know, randon name) said the exhaust or muffler had basically disconected itself from the engine or whatever. not good in otherwords..

anyway, back in time a week or so.. BYRON BAY!! the old hippie (f***ing hippies!!) beach. bit run down, not like built up or anything, but still well nice. our hostel was really quite nice and the people in our rooms and of our bus were pretty cool so that was all ok. we got their afternoon ish i think and just hung about a bit waiting for the BBQ going on in the evening (which was awesome btw). over the next few days, we hired out some (shirtty) bikes and cycled too far (charles' words) to byron light. i was so literally out of breath it wasn't even funny. had to push the last km or so. i was 'down a lung' on the other guys though (pnuemonia). it was pretty coool when i got there though (ricky and charles had been there a good while before i arrived! lol), had a pepsi and caught my breathh and took some piccybo's. the way down was a lot much super duper better than the way up, all cos it was all downhill!! so much fun!!! like anti-exercise hard work. woo!

we did some beaching whilst we were there to (like you do) which was ok. work on the tan and that.

NIMBIN!!!! was a dump. a street with a pub and loads of drug parafinalia (spelling?) stores. really really seedy place. everyother person was offering drugs (weed, acid, LSD etc) and everyotherother person was smoking something that wasn't entirely tabacco.. we got hash cakes anyway, cos they were cheap (and they worked a treat as we later found out). that night, a bit meal and a hash cake later we were in a bakery buying food (i wonder why...?) haha yeah, eventfully funny night. cheeky monkeys, the bar across from our hostel was sorta a dump to, but it was fun, you could dance on the tables and we had a wak! StPaddy's day there!!

after byron we hit the road for SURFERS PARADISE!!!!! which i really quite liked even though we were only there for literally 24hours. i don't think charles and richard liked it as much. the beach was a bit busy (and windy) but the town was coool and our hostel bus drove us around a bit and i found the slightly spread about skyscrapers quite cool.

when we were waiting for our OZ bus to Brisbane in the evening, we found out that all the decent hostels in bisbane had literally (and i'm not exaggerating) no room, and we tried like 4/5/6 different hostels. so we ended up asking Oscar (this coool dude we met in Fiji on one of the islands) is we could crash at his that night, which turned out to be fine and we had a cooo night. the next day we went to Wet'n' Wild, this water park which we heard loadsa people raving about but turned out to be pretty crap. it was pretty busy though so we didn't get on many rides, that might've been why i guess. that night we still had no accomadation, but charles had been ordered (lol) to contact some family friends in brisbane so we ended up staying with them that night, which was incredibly kind of them. we had a f***ing slap up BBQ and lots of lush beer and expensive wine! a decent night all round really! we had to be up at like 5:15 though (bummer!) to get our next OZ bus in the centre of brisbane, that was a complete laugh obviously! haha

and then brisbane to NOOOOOOSA!!!!!!!! wooooo!!!!!! i think i will continue for a bit as i have some internet credit left, sweet as!

so NOOSA. we arrived and waited around for f***ing ages at teh transit center for hostel's shuttle bus to pick us up (it was only 2mins down the road too!? lazy much) anyway, this is were we first met Ben Moore, who has stuck with us so far to airlie beach (and is on our whitsundays boat), and is a complete legend! also in our room was a couple or geordie lads, so us southerners naturally got the piss ripped out of us. the were cool though! we had a bin bag party on night, which basically involved dressing up in bing bags (duh!) ricky was wasted and charles was pretty far gone too (i was sober). that was a pretty canny night, liike (haha, geordie). we did some body boarding one day at the beach, where we all got bad rashes. another day we did surfing and learnt our lesson and used rash vests/t shirts. it started out pretty s*** and the current was well strong making it hard to get out deep enough, but towards the 2nd half of our hire i was getting a good few waves, yeeeah duuude! it was awesome fun.!

after noosa came 1770, and i shall leave it there for now, 1770 had a f***ing A activity that i will tell you about, another day...! woooh, spooky!

laters, see you after the whitsundays!!!

GO ENGLAND!!!

GO ARSENAL!!!

(go cardiff!!)

xxxxx