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hello everyone!
hope you are all well? i am having the time of my life here at the moment! coral bay is brilliant and im so glad i stayed here! everyday you get to know the other workers/locals a little more and it gets better and better!
i have worked the last 14 nights in a row in the restaurant but i now have the whole day off as i moved into 'big brother' which is an area of cabins owned by the restaurant owner. its only $50 a week (22 pounds) for a cabin and me and tiff share so its only half each! its so cool............................its really basic and reminds us of an evacuation camp but we love it! Big brother is in an area known to the locals as 'Kenya'! ................and seriously, thats exactly where you could be! its basically where all the workers in town live for cheap. Its all tin houses and caravans in the sand.........but as you can imagine they have been modified and funkified over the years! there are old cars everywhere and its so basic but you have to see it to realise how cool it is! there are sheets hung up as curtains everywhere and hammocks attached to old posts....its just so chilled out and everyone just hangs out together having bbq's and talking about what crazy wildlife they have seen that day!
i could stay here for ages!................its like another 'river valley'! anyway, i have been making use of tiffany's job by getting myself some free boat trips! tiff absolutely loves her job and she is so good at looking after people once they are all in the water. we went out swimming with the manta rays again and then i got to go to a lpace called 'asho's gap'. its basically a gap in the coral that you swim through and on the other side is a shark cleaning station! its so cool! yesterday we swam in and there were about 8 sharks being cleaned by the other fish! one was absolutely huge! unfortunately my joy was short lived as i got stung by a jellyfish! (probably the 1st of many to come!)
After feeling a sting on my arm i assumed it was just sea lice! ........but suddenly it got really painful and when i looked at my arm i had a spotty blue tentacle hanging off it! as images of sudden paralysis started to enter my mind i yelled to tiff that i had been stung and as she swam over i pulled the tentacle off and threw it in the water..................only for tiffany to go and swim straight over it! so i ended up with a big red mark on my arm and tiff had a big red arm-pit! whoops! plenty of vinegar and lots of ooohhing and ahhhing tourists later, and we were all ok! i still have my battle scars so i will try and get a pic on here for you!...................now i feel like a true australian chick! ha ha!
anyway, when we are not on the tour boat we are out on my bosses boat snorkelling with turtles and lagoon rays! sunbathing on the back with a beer! its so funny how you can be out in the bay chilling out on a boat and another group of friends just pull up alongside you in there boat and start chatting................as if you just bumped into each other in the street!
we have also been chilling out on 'paradise' beach....which speaks for itself! .............and speeding around on the quad bikes still! its so much fun and im now an accomplished back seat rider!.................basically it means i can sit on the back and look cool with my legs hanging over one side, drinking a chocolate milk as we go between beaches across the dunes! trust me there is a definate knack to it!
anyway, i must go and continue with my hard life! i have a hammock and a cup of green tea waiting! as you can tell i am loving my time here and will be so sad to leave! although i think i will have an excuse to come back as tiff may stay now she has her ultimate job!
take care and speak to you soon! love kristy xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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