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July 24th/25th – Greyhound! Townsville to Agnes Waters.
-Fourteen hours that is a strong contender for the highpoint of all this travelling malarkey.
Australia is a big country. Just so you know. Even keeping this is mind the Greyhound bus journey we embarked upon on this dull Saturday evening was rather epic, taking us all the way from Townsville (which we’d earlier returned to via a turbulent ferry journey over from Magnetic island) halfway across, or rather down, Queensland to the small coastal town of Agnes Waters. We’d get on the bus at 7.30pm and not get off until gone 9am the following morning...meaning nearly fourteen hours onboard. At least it was overnight, so we could attempt to get some sleep and as a welcome fringe benefit not have to pay for a hostel...you’ve got to look on the bright, or at least mildly florescent, side after all. You never know, it might even turn out to be kind of fun...
...so much for positive thinking. It could have been worse, I could have seen every half hour on the onboard clock, its glow in the dark numbers hovering like some kind of sadistic teasing spectre at the front of the overwise pitch black coach, instead of ‘just’ seeing it every hour like I did. I could have had only one seat as opposed to two, true there wasn’t room to properly lie down but the cranked foetal position required was better than sitting...I should know, I took a good sample of both. We could have stopped for more than the three rest stops we did, though who doesn’t need a hot drink and snack food at 3AM? Our driver(s) could have been genuinely mentally unbalanced instead of just night shift worker twisted, the rambling smooth talking DJesque repour of the first providing some much needed comic relief, simulating the noised of eating, drinking etc as he listed off the vast possibilities of the rest stop and lazily ambling through such lines as ‘now entering Airlie Beach. Home of sand, sea and sin. (pause) I do like some sin myself.’
Yep, it sure could have been worse.
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