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Hey, Hope your all well.
Just a quick one. After arriving in cairnes and feeling a little home sick. I checked int a hostel called Bohemia and planned to stay fr a week max and then start making my way down the coast staying at a few places on the way down to Airley beach to meet my mum. A week soon turned into 2 and a bit after meeting some awesome friends in the backpackers. The england games were still playing at this point, so i got chatting to a couple about the games and decided that we would go watch it together, we quickly found out that some of the other pepople staying in our hostel were going to the same place so we all went together.
The hostel we were staying in was really new and still being built i some areas so we were the only people staying in there. So we all got to know each other really well and quickly. Most of the people staying there were looking for work in Cairnes, and to be honest i would of gladly stayed there with them and worked, but i had to move on. The people im talking about ae Lee and Laura from Bristol, Rachel, Irlean and Loren from Ireland, Angnes (pronounced an-yes) from France and Chris, Ryan, Avi and Scott from Nottingham. Will prob be meeting them all again for new years eve in Sydney.
In the first week of staying in Cairnes i booked my self onto a snorkelling trip to the Great Barrier Reef. The trip was a full day and i had to be down at the docks by 7:30. So when i woke up at 7:45 i knew the day was doomed. I called up the company and they said that the boat didnt leave till 8:00 so i could make it down i could still go. So i chucked my things into a bag and set off running in my flip flops..... !!!! Half way there i did the only thing im good at and stubbed my toe on a ROCK/ boulder thing in the middle of the road, after numerous mins of screaming my head off and shouting out over swear word i know of and getting strange looks from early morning walkers i continued on my way. Unfortuatly i was too late to the port so i booked myself on to the following days trip. On my way back to the backpackers i was texting my old friend Kristina to tell her about my stubbage when i walked into a lamp post due to looking at my phone !!! this was NOT a good day.
Any way the trip the next day was good and enjoyed seeing all the fish and the coral on the barrier reef, there are not really more fish or nicer fish than over on the west coast in Coral Bay, but the coral itself is nicer and has more colour.
Most of my 2 weeks in Cairnes was spent hanging around during the day with friends, going to the pics and the gym, playing football on a weekend, watching the world cup and a big night out every now and again. It was really hard to leave Cairnes and my friends, but they were all getting jobs and i had to set off to meet mum.
The first place i went to was Mission beach, where i spent 2 nights. There isnt much to do there apart from sky dive, so i just hung around on the beach and met an old friend Carol-Ann for one of the days and then set off again to Magnetic Island which is an island just off Townsville. Magnetic island is stunning and the weather was great. The first night i got talking to the other people in my room, 2 were from engalnd but didnt get their name(didnt talk much, and left the following morning) and the rest were Canadian. Carolyn, Wendy, Sarah, Jordan and ....i cant remember but thats only because im rubbish with names !!!
We all laughed our heads off the entire time on Megnetic from the moment we started talking on the first night to the time we left in Townsville. The first day i spent on my own on the beach, tanning !!! then the second day the others had hired a Mook, which is like a n over sized go-cart (pics will be up soon). We drove around the island and went on walks looking for Koala's (which we found) then later that night we had another early night on the promise that we would have a good drinkning session the following night. So the next day we started early by going to the bottle shop and drinking on the beach then hitting the happy hour hard !! me and Carolyn were prob the worst and we all teamed up for the pub quiz, The first round we thought we had done quite well on but.....some how we managed to get 2/15 !! come on !!! every other team was getting around 10 ! we sucked haha. By this point there was no turning back drink wise and we were well on our way to drunk city. The next game was a musical chairs style game and i tell you it was toooooo funny. you had to be there for it to be as funny so wont bore you. The next day we all headed over to Townsville and waited for out Coaches, they wree going north and i was going south so again had to say goodbye to good friends. This part of traveling sucks !!! but not b4 me and Carolyn travelled over half of Townsville for a Mc donalds which we found 10 mins b4 my coach was due to leave. I way pushed my luck and we had to get a taxi back to the coach station and i just caught it !!
Any who written plenty this time, will update again tom
hope your all well, email soon
nik xx
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