Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
After leaving Magnetic Island it was back to a city and a short local bus, then ferry took us back to Townsville. This was the day that we were meeting Koo (a friend from Uni) and she was kind enough to book us into a hostel and organise a pick up from the ferry terminal.
Koo came with the hostel bus to pick us up, I can only imagine she was very excited to see me, seen as she left England for sunnier times last December it has been a while. She had treated her self to a double room and had said as a birthday treat I could spend our night in Townsville with her in some nice quiet privacy. Thanks Koo :-) We headed to the hostel and got the boys checked into their dorm. It was quite a nice day so we wanted to go check out the beach but the boys had some dirty washing to do. We left them to it and headed out for a catch up. Sat on the beach enjoying the afternoon sun, a lovely seagull decided to use Koo as target practice, supposedly a sign of good luck?! Washing done and the boys came to meet and we constructed an evening plan. This as you have probably guessed consisted of eating and drinking. Plan made we headed to the supermarket for ingredients, we had decided on chilli to line our stomachs with.
As you will already know, we have had to drink quite a lot of the Australian delicacy, 'goon'. Koo and I decided we would like a tipple with our dinner and treated ourselves to a bottle of actual wine. A chilled bottle of rose, the boys cooking up a storm in the kitchen, what more could we want. We tried to put the fact we also had a chilled box of goon creeping up on us out of our minds.
Dinner eaten, glad rags on, time for the pre-drinking. Out came the goon, we dealt with that and headed out on the town. I say town loosely as it was a bit more like a ghost town. Quite a big place just with no people. We did manage to find a busyish bar and decided that would be where we spend the rest of our night. To be honest, the venue didn't really matter, we had now completed out East Coast travelling group and it was time to celebrate. And celebrate we did :-)
- comments
lethal Seems like Aussie seagulls have just as much manners as Cornish ones! XXXXXX