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So we arrived in Airlie Beach yesterday! We caught the ferry back to Townsville from Maggie I to pick up our bus and met he English boys who'd been on or last bus also! We saw the 'big' snake and mangoe in towns on the way down the coast and went through Bowen where lots of the film Australia was filmed so they created a 'Bowenwood' sign mimicking the Hollywood sign! We also stopped to get smoothies from the east coasts best smoothie shop! I treated myself to a delicious banana smoothie and foun out that bananas are actually $12 per kg at the moment as yasi wiped out the banana crops! (Yes we've been buying endless bananas...blistfully unaware until now! We arrived in beautiful sunny Airlie beach, home to the Whitsundays and an east coast party resort! All the hostels are on one strip and nearly everyone stops here on their travels along the coast so it's heaving with youngsters! We went to beaches to start, with our new friends (another barrett!) and the rest of the oz experience bus for a free table and the night began! We arrived back to our hot cramped vey quiet and dark 8 bed room at Magnums rather late having heard terrible bed bug stories and also bumping into an English girl we met in Cairns who had then had her legs bitten horendously on Magnetic Island...took me a while to get to sleep I was so scared! Today we were off cruising round the famous Whitsundays! Got loads of gorgeous piccies ad snorkled with hundreds of fish...some rather large (maowrie wrasse)! We had a BBQ on whitehaven beach on the lovely white sand! Got a bit seasick at one point at 3 tides met and the waves went crazy...several people were vomming over the back of the boat, rather relieved when we returned to land for pizza and a terrible cold shower (no hot water!). Packing up shortly and moving on again at 6.45am tomorrow to Agnes 1770 for a compulsory overnight stop! Then onto Fraser Island for 3 days and 2 nights camping so probably no more blogs until we arrive in Brizzie on Thursday to stay with Dad's cousin Johnna! So excited about washing clothes and being in a house rather than a smelly hostel! X
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