Well hello there, how is everyone back home? i hope ur all well. im fine and still having a great time.

i don't quite know how on my last blog i forget to tell you about my last night in innisfail!!! but i will now put that right!!

Well the day before i left innisfail (1/2/08) i didnt get up to to much during the day except post some stuff home and pack my rucksack!! which after 2 months in one place was a lot of hard work i can tell you!!!! after the packing was complete it was time for gettig pissed!! we decided it would be a good plan to have a punch party!!! so we got a massive cooking pot and filled it with a bottle of vodka, brandy,wiskey,rum, white wine, red wine, rosey wine, juice, squash and of course fruite!!! well needless to say i got plastered in fact i go so drunk i made myself sick and then pasted out on the bed!!!! all after having a fab evening with all the mates id met since beeing there! when i got up in the morning as you can amagine i had the worst hangover and no one else was up to say goodbye!! :( oh well it was a good night and if the boot was on the other foot i wouldnt have got out of bed either!!!

Well (2/2/08) i managed to get the bus to mission beach ok and when i got there i met my room mates for the next 2 nights, there were 2 english girls, Jess and Faye and one canadan girl Rachel they were all really nice and we all decided to go out for dinner and drinks. it was a really great night i wasn't up for drinking much as i still wasn't feeling my best but i managed the 2 glasses of free wine and cheese!!!! i didn't stay late either as id booked to go white water rafting the following day!! and i was feeling very scared and thought it best that i get some sleep so faye and i left early and left rachel and jess with the rafting guides that jess had met that day after rafting herself.

The next day (3/2/08) i went white water rafting on the Tully river it was a grade 4 river and i had such good fun it was a little scary but after the first couple of rapids it was great!! one of the other boats tiped up while going down a rapid but everyone was ok, althought some of the girls got out after that as they were to scared to continue, which was a shame. i did fall out tho! the guide was trying to tip the boat by heading back up the rapid we had just come down, we knew what she was trying to do but we didnt mind, it wasnt really working anyway as the boat just kept spinning round, until we tried again and thats when 4 of us at the front of the boat fell out!!! i ended up under the boat which was pretty scary but new the current would pull me away from the boat so i surfaced as soon as i could!! i also lost my paddle but saw it floating towards me when i surface so collected it on my way back to the boat!! it was quite a scary experience but overall if was really fun and apart from the major sunburn on my knee's i was ok. in the evening faye and i were off out again when we bumped into some people playing cards Rob, Sarah and John they ask us to join them so we sat and played cards for a bit which was nice then we all went out for drinks later it was a good night and we got to bed about 2am.

The next day (4/2/08) i got up to check out at 10am then i went for breakfast with Rob, Sara and john which was really nice i had sausage and bacon toasted sandwich!!! YUM!!! we also went to the beach and saw loads of people skydiving which was really cool! i left mission beach at 1pm and got the bus to townsville where i got a ferry to Magnetic island, i arrived there about 6pm, i put my stuff in my room and met 2 irish girls Laura and Jen they asked me if i was up for a drink so we went to the hostle bar and got drunk!! they were both really nice and i had such a good night i got to bed about 1.30am!!! i was only staying on the island for one night so i didnt really get to see alot but it was so pretty and the hostel was right on the beach.

i got the ferry back (5/2/08) to townsville to get the bus to Airlie beach, i arrived in Airlie beach at 5.30pm i checked in the went out for dinner and drinks with the guys off the oz bus which was nice, but i didnt stay out late and got to bed about 11pm. Again the next day (6/2/08) i didnt get up to much i went to get my tickets for my sailing trip and had abit of a look around i went to check out the beach but it wasnt all that great and i went for a walk to the marina and read my book but apart from that i didnt do all that much, again i had another early night.

The next day (7/2/08) i had to get up early to catch my boat which ws called the Matador, we set sail at 10am and the weather was so nice, we all helped to put the sails up which was hard work but fun and then we sailed to our first stop which unfortunatly i can't remember what it was called!!! Doh! where we put our very sexy stinger suits (to stop the jelly fish stinging us!!) on and dived in to go snorkelling which was pretty good. there were these 2 tiny yellow fish with black strips that followed me for the hole snorkel!! the where so cute the kept swimming right infront of my mask and i sware i kissed one at one stage!!! i also did a dive there but the visibility was really poor so it wasn't that good. in the evening on the way to our stop for the night we saw an amazing half an hour sun set and then we got to watch a lighting storm which was spectacular until it started to rain!!! but it was bed time by then so it wasnt to bad!! althought it was so hot down below that it was hard to sleep and some of the hard core amung us and not to mention drunk ones!! put the bright yellow overcoats on and headed back up in the rain!!

In the morning (8/2/08)we were up at 7am haveing breakfast and moving to the next site again i can't remember what it was called!!! i did another dive which again wasn'y to fab as the visibility although better than the day before still was good, the snorkelling was better. in th afternoon we went to the whitehaven beach which was just out of the world! the sand is one of the purest in the world just so white!!! we had to stay in our stinger suites tho which was a shame but it was still just so fab the water was so clear and there was even sharks and sting rays un the shallows!!! seeing the sting rays was cool but they were really hard to spot in the sand and i didnt want to stand on one!!! for me whitehaven beach was the highlight of the sailling trip and id recommend to everyone to see it if you ever get the chance. in the evening i got a little drunk on goon!!! and sat with a torch and shark spotted! we also saw some dolphins but only briefly it was really cool and such good fun.

the next day (9/2/08) as expected i woke with a bangin head!! i got a slight sleep in till 7.30am!! but found that there was hardly any breakfast left! you snooze you loose!!! and then we set off to wait for it!!! i can actually remember the name of the place!! it was called blue pearl bay!!!!! i only snorkelled that day but there were so many fish it was so cool!! i saw a massive rass and a rock cod beening cleaned it was the best site we'd been to. in the afternoon i sunbathed on the deck and we set of back to Airlie beach. on the way back we stopped of for a little diving competion with no stinger suits on!!! and just my look when i was in the water they spotted a jelly fish floating pasted the boat!! i managed to get back to the boat with major injures!! although it seemed so of the boys wern't so luckly!! a few of then got a few stings!! once back on dry land we met up for dinner and drinks which was nice and then headed home to some very welcome air con!!!!

The next day (10/2/08) i was up at 7am to get the bus to Kroombit, on the way we stopped of to play bearfoot lawn bowls!! and infact it was a lot of fun! i wasn't all that good i could hit the jack (the white ball) but it alway gave an advantage to someone else!! Doh!! we arrived at Kroombit catle staion at about 5pm we had some dinner then had a go at wip cracking!! its really really hard and i think i wiped myself more that making any kind of sound! i think i cracked it once but with so many of us having a go it could have been the sound from someone next to me!!!! then it was time for the mechanical bull ride oh my good i was crap!! i had to have some duch courage before hand tho i was pretty scared!! but wasnt as bad at it as Alice was!!! you can see the videos on the site, the one of Alice is just so funny every time i watch it i cant stop laughing for about 5 mins!! and that was her second attempt!! anyway i was so tired after that i went to bed.

the next day (11/2/08) we had to be up at 6am and i went horse ridding at 7.30am to go find the goats we needed for the rodeo later. but as per usual it didnt go to plan as we came up the road all the goats were heading off up the hill, in the wrong direction!! and then we spent an hour trying to find them!! by the time we got back to the entrance the goats had mustered themselves i only had to herd them into the enclosure. oh well it was still cool to be back on a horse again!! then it was time for the clay pigeon shooting i didnt have a go cause id tryed it before and wasnt any good!! but some of the others did, Alice had a go and she was really good she did the best with 4/5. then it was time for the rodeo we all got into teams of three are team was called the goat masters!! i was in a team with alice and ashley the first goat was massive and we were like we cant catch that one!! but to our amazment it just stood still in the centre circle and we grabed it, flipped it and branded it within seconds!! where were only a few teams so we had two go each it had been rainning but it was really good fun! this time our goat moved and ashley had to pull it into the circle by its back leg! it doesn't look very nice but its not suppost to hurt!! once in the circle we had to lift it and pin it down and then brand it. over all our team came in second place!! Woooohooo!! it was a really fun day shame about the weather. we then left Kroombit at 10.30am and headed for Hervey bay where we arrive about 5pm we had all you can eat pizza for $10 and then packed for Fraser Island then went to bed.

we had to get very early again (12/2/08) about 5.30am we had a meeting at 6.50am where we watched videos on fraser island and got put into groups the were 3 4w drive vans going to the island from our hostel and we were all to stick together. i had 4 coreans 2 english guys and one other english girl in my group only emma and me were suppost to drive as we were over 21. i drove to the hire place where we were to get all the equiptment but the van broke down on the way!!! they had to come and pick us up and luckly we got a different van to take onto the island!!!! we then went to the supermarket to get supplys for the 3 days on the island as there wasnt anywhere reaaly to get food and stuff on the island. i also drove to the ferry and we arrived in plenty of time, the only bad thing was i had to the reverse onto the ferry it was the most scarest thing ever!! im not good at reversing at the best of times but onto a ferry where you could fall into the sea if you go wrong isnt good!! but it went pretty perfectly with a little help from the people in the back!! once on we then waited for the other to vans to arrive, we waited and waited!! then one of the vans showed up just in time the got on and we set off!! but we were like wheres the other van!! the guys said the other van left the supermarket before them and so they had to have gotten lost!!! the guys said the couldnt get there van to start!! but were luckly to have made it!! Emma drove once on the island and oh my god is she a mad driver!! it was so bumpy in the back it was definatly off road driving!!! i did some driving once we got onto the beach and we headed up towards the camp site!! emma then took over driving again an decided it would be a good idea to overtake the boys!!! we were suppost to be looking out for a washout from a creek into the sea but we were to busy racing!!! and hit the washout at about 80kh!!! Doh!! we slammed into it and sprayed water all over the van we were luckly we didnt trash the vans as the others didnt much time to brake either and they hit it as hard as we did!!! but again no damage thank god!! we found the camp site and put up the tents and as we were doing that the other van arrived they had got lost and had to wait for the next ferry!!! although they didnt miss much as we hadn't seen anything that day!! at night we had a BBQ and drinks but the weather was awful it was rainning and the wind was so strong it blow most of the tents down so we ended up sleeping in the van!! i got up in the night to go to the loo to come face to face with a dingo!! i watched it with my torch then legged it back to the van once it had gone!!!

In the morning 5.30am we got up and back on the beach to indian head lookout there were nice views but we were in a bit of a rush as we had to get off the beach for high tide so we set off for champagne pools. we had to stay there till about 3pm when the tide went down but we only arrived at 10am so we had most of the day there. once we arrived i relised id left my flip flops on the beach where we parked at indian head and had to go back for them!!! Doh!! but no one would come with me so i had to go on my own!! it was ok but i was a bit scared id get stuck in the soft sand or in the floos water i had to drive through!!! but i found my flip flops where id left them!! when i got back i went for a swim for a bit and then sunbathed for a bit. we had a bit of lunch then it started to rain so i went to sleep in the back of the van for a bit. at about 3pm we set off to the camp site we went to a proper camp site with showers and toilets!! we had to pay $8 for it tho but as it was still rainning as it had been near enough all the time we had been on the island we didnt care, we paid and set up camp they had a covered area to cook and hangout so we stayed up drank and played drinking games. it was a good night. i went to bed about 1am and slept in the tent.

the next morning (14/2/08) we got up at 6.30am packed up and set off for Lake Wabby again it was rainning and we were all starteding to get fed up by now with all the rain and sain everywhere!!! Lake Wabby was beautiful the sand dunes were amazing and the lake was really warm, i only had a paddle as i was already so wet!! then after about 30 mins we set of for Lake McKenzie which again was amazing, but with the rain we only stayed about 1 hour!! such a shame!! we all decided to get the early ferry off the island as we were all so fed up!! the battery on our van then decided to die on us so we had to get it jump started!!! then we had to leave it running on the ferry back as we couldnt risk it not starting again!!! when we got back to the hostel we were all so glad!! i had a good time but was getting pissed off with the other people in my van by the end and the constant rain was such a pain!! oh well!!!

the next day (15/2/08) was just a chill out day i went on the internet, read my book watched tv went bed early!! on the 16/2/08 i checked out in the morning and waited all day till 4.30pm to get my bus to rainbow beach but when it got to 5.30pm and the bus hadnt turned up i rang them they said call back after 6 if it still hasnt come, so i did and guess what!! they weren't coming!!! the bus was stuck in the floods and couldnt get down the coast to pick us up!!! so we had to go bake to the hostel!

the next day (17/2/08) i got a greyhound bus to rainbow beach and arrived at about 12.30pm. rainbow beach is really small and there wasnt much to do so i went for a work to the shops and then in the evening me and a few others went up to carlo sandblows which is a massive sand dune its really pretty and we went for a little walk which was nice.

the next day (18/2/08) me and the guy john who was in my doom room went for a walk on the beach before getting our buses i got a bit sunburnt!!! Doh!! but it was nice to see the different color sand i.e. rainbow beach!! then i got the bus to Brisbane and arrive at about 7pm i just watched a bit of telly then went to bed.

19/2/08 i got up late and met Alice and we went to town for lunch and to look round the shops when i got back i read my book for a bit and the packed my rucksack ready for my flight to perth the next day.

Well thats it for now and i bet your thinking thank god!!! cause i know i am!! ive been sat here for hours and im so glad its over!!! i hope you enjoy reading it, i cant say ive enjoyed typing it!! Oh well the things i do to keep you lot up to date with my adventures!! i have to say the ive had such a great time going down the coast ive met so many lovely people and had such a fab time going to the most wonderful places, but now in off to perth to see Joe and Lucy and i cant wait ill prob fill you in when i get to aderlaid in march so watch out. i hope ur all well,

take care

im missin you all loads

Ke xxx

P.s this has to be my longest blog so far by far!!!! :)