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Hey everybody! hope ur all well!!! :-) sorry its been ages since i last updated u have been buuy as usual!!
so i last left you all in cairns, i went snorkling on the great barrier reef and that was amazing!! saw so many beautiful fish and coral and even some giant clams!!! went with 4 other giils who i met in thailand and bali (all from england too) and we had such a laugh!! we got the top sun deck on the boat and literally got treated liie princesses all day!! food lie evry hour and being the backpackers that we are we made the most of fre food and cleae every plate that they sent us!! hee hee. was such a bautifullittle sand island we went to for the afternoon as well. My time in cairns was mostly spent drinking with the girls and some other friends that i met. at times there were groups of about 15/20 of us going out drinking so it was similar to being back to uni. i stayed here for about a week cause i liked it soo much. :-) gilligans hostel was sooo much fun and made it soo easy to meet people it even had a gym so i was in heaven!!! :-)
After a few days of drinking every night i neeeded too get away from the party atmosphere so i booked a two day trip to cape tribulation - where the rainforest meets the sea as they call it. it was really pretty! this is where i went jungle surfing (zipwiring thru the forest in the rain hanging upside down!) obviously i loved this!!while i was on cape trib i went on a crocodile hunting trip and managed to seee a baby crocodile too!!
unfortunately i wasnt very well for 2 days during my time in cairns - i know what ur thinking!!! it wasnt the alcohol that made me ill i actually had flu and couldnt even move for like 2 days!! i wouldnt even have got out of bed to collect a 50 dollar note of the floor!! in fact i couldnt even send mum a text message to tell her i was ill i had that little energy!! but i soon got better!! and moved on from here to a place called mission beach with 2 girls that i met in the jungle - vicky and frederick. both travelling on their own too. it turns out have spent a lot of the last few weeks with these girls!!
Mission beach gave us a chance to just chill out and not drink!! :-) from here we went onto magnetic island. this was soooooo beautiful and i really enjoyed it here. met some irish girls and we hired a car for the day and it wasnt just any car it was a barbie car!! proper amazin. i was in heaven and when i had to take it back for a hello kitty one i did thro a bit of a tantrum!! lol the man in the garage had a bit of a shock. the cars were identical apart from the barbie cover and the hello kitty cover but i still wanted the barbie one so i got my own way as usual and managed to keep it :-) yey.
we went to loads of little bays and found some places that we could swim in the sea cause there are stingers around at the moment (dangerous jellyfish that can kill you) you cant swim in the sea!! (unless u wear a beautiful sexy stinger suit!!) ha ha. on this trip we also went on a walk thru the outback and found a koala in the tree!! was sooooo cute!
went swimming in a lovely little waterfall too so that was a brilliant day plus just the fact u can cruise around in the barbie car made it sooo much more fun roof down of course. i want one!! hee hee.
from here i moved onto airlie beach. where i went to whitsundays. i went on a boat called the boomerang. its an ex racer sailing boat and so we had our work cut out. we had to help sail the boat for 3 days. we slept on the deck under the stars for 2 nights. was sooo amazin however hard so was very tired after the trip!! went to the beautiful whitehaven beach -i have never seen so much gorgeous white sand and pure blue sea. was totally amazing!!
we also did some snorkling here too (one lot at 7.30am, can honestly say iv never done it wquite that early in the morning!!) and it was amazing. met some new people here as all the poeple i already knew had been booked onto different boats but it was nice to be back on me own again so to speak :-) spent the eves drinking under the stars. such fun. the best bit was sitting on the deck and having breakfast with just sea all around u!! ammmazin. also saw giant turtles here they were soo cool just poking their heads out around the boat. again we got sooo much food on this trip - was nice to get free food again. australia is sooo expensive in some places its as much as 4 pounds for a can of coke and thats just in a shop!! so its killinmg my budget!!
just as we got back from whitsundays we learnt that a cyclone was headed for cairns and we were gonna gget the tail end of it in airlie so my last few days there were rainy and horrible but at least i had amazing weather on whitsundays, some of the trips the day after mine were cancelled due to bad weather!! also i didnt get sea sick :-) however i did get land sick which was wierd i just felt dizzy and couldnt walk in a straight line for the whole of the day after i got off the boat!! lol.
this is another place where it seemed that all the people i had met down the coast so far came back together again. everyone was finally in the same place at the same time. so we had another big night out. lol.
following this i went on a day boat trip to an island called day dream isalnd. i didnt no anything about this place but i picked it for the amazing name!! ha ha. i went on my own and spent the whole day reading my book in the sunshine and using the amazin facilities of a hotel that was on the island. that was my little treat to get away from backpackers for a little bit. even had waiters bringing drinks to my sunbed all day!! was lovely :-)
back to backpacker life though - overnight bus followed this :-( was not great but has to be done.
arrived in 1770 at like 9.30am but im not one to sleep so i went out and explored a little and also hit the beach. was good to be back at a beach and this is also the first place u can swim in the sea without th stupid stinger suit so it was soooo nice to actually feel the water against ur skin!! :-) that evening i went on akayaking trip to see the dolphins, although we didnt see any :-( the kayaking was really good fun and the sunset was nice too!!
the next day i naturally spent the whole day surfing - was awesome. surfing over masssive jellyfish was hilarious - trying not to fall off near them - dont worry they are not deadly but they were huge!! ha ha.
After 2 active days here me and vicky left for rainbow beach. which is where i am now. we spent the last 3 days on fraser island camping. mmmm let me tell you that was an experience. you basically spend 3 days in a 4x4 truck driving along the sand on the beacdh and up little tracks with really deep sand!! sounds like fun!! put into the equation there are 10 of you in a car and 8 of them u have never met before and who dont speak english that well. mmmm ill let u do the maths,. but it was interestiong. Not looking forward to camping again next week i can tell you. but at least vicky was there with me!! Fraser isladn itself was really pretty - just far too many big flies everywhere. went to indian head and finally saw dolphins. had to dig holes to go to the toilet as there are no showers or toilets here. sand gets absolutely everywhere i tell u!! lol. i have never eaten so much sand before. it literally was in everything we cooked.
while we were on fraser we went to lake mckenzie which is beautiful sooooo amazing to feel fresh water against ur skin after all the salt and sand and then tents etc.
this morning i got up at 6.30am to go and feed the dolphins. that was really cool to give wild dolphins some fish and to be in the water with them. :-) tomorrow i move onto noosa where as i sed before im camping again. im doing a 3 day kayaking adventure tour. so im looking forward to the kayaking and hopefully will have a better experience of camping. then iv got 3 weeks left in australia before i head to new zealand.
im sooo sorry if iv bored u with all my jabbering away!! but i thought some of u might be interested!! hee hee. miss u all speak to all soon :-) xxx
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