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Soph And Alice Take On The World!
WHITSUNDAYS
For those of you who don't know the whitsundays is a group of islands just off of Australia and they are BEAutiful. We were lucky and got an awesome group on our boat, there were a load of irish people on there so as you can imagine it was a little bit crazy! The first night we played some pretty good drinking games,our favourite being goon box which soph and nadia managed to win somehow!! We'll show you all how to play when we're back coz its hilarious! The night ended with as many people as we could fit in jumping in the cold hottub!
The second day was and early rise with a few sore heads..it was worth it though, we got a speed boat over to one of the island where we climbed a mountain and got an incredible viewof whitehaven beach,it was the best beach we've ever seen! We then chilled on the beach for a bit, you have to wear stinger suits whenever you get in the water here because its too dangerous to go in without them,as you can see fromthe photos they are very flattering (modelled by ash and soph)!
After spending a bit of time here we then sailed to an amazing snorkelling place where we did a scuba dive..saw the usual..nemo,a puffer fish etc! Was wicked! That night was a bit more tame than the last!We were all chilling on the top deck when someone shouted to look over the side..we saw about 5 sharks swarming aload of squid, then they attacked and we saw ink everywhere! Aftera while 3 dolphins came along and joined in! it was awesome to see! Alice was particularly amazed by this and sat watching them all night!
We sailed back to Airlie Beach the next day and when we got off the boat Jess and Mike fromByron Bay were waiting for us! It wasso good to see them..We spent the next couple of days chilling out until it was time for us to say goodbye to nad and ash and continue the journey alone again! It was sad to say goodbye to them but hopefully we will see them in Thailand!
TOWNSVILLE/ MAGNETIC ISLAND
We got the oz experience to townsvilee which is a wierd little place, there was nobody about at all, we were only there for a few hours and then got the ferry over to magnetic island which is wicked! We stayed in a hostel which was right on the beach and the dorms were all little beach huts,it was really cool! We rented kayaks one day and had races with the boys which was fun,we didnt lose EVERYTIME! we paddled over to a deserted beach and chilled there for a while. On the second night we were there the bar manager had a night off and for some reason took a liking to us and told the girl behind the bar not to charge us for any of our drinks all night so you can imagine how that night turned out! We were only here for 2 nights because we need to get up to Cairns for our flight out on the 20th.
MISSION BEACH
We stayed at another cool hostel in Mission Beach called Scotties..It had a pool and played music all day, very chilled out place. Theres not really alot here so most people stop off only because they are doing a skydive or rafting..as much as we wanted to do another skydive we couldnt afford it so we went rafting instead! The rapids were grade 4 and it was TOTALLY AWESOME DUDES!!! Being the girls we are we asked the guides to put us in the fasted, most crazy boat and they defs did! The rapids were soooo good, sometimes a tad scary! Our guide was a nutter and kept flipping the boat and stuff..one timehe did it Soph and 2 other girls got swept down the river!
When it was over the guides told us that the Tully river is the most dangerous river in Oz and on one rapid they've had 3 deaths in the past year!!!! No wonder they didnt tell us before!! Dont worry though we survived!!!
CAIRNS
We got to Cairns late at night and were up bright and early the next day to go to the Great Barrier Reef and do some diving! We got the boat over to Green Island..When we did a scuba dive there was a tour group of Chinese men doing there first dive, they were soooo wierd! We had to stand there for what seemed like hours while each one individually got a photo with us! Oddballs! The dive was cool though, we took an underwater camera which alice carried the whole way round and took some cool photos, when she passed it to Soph so she could take one sope let go of it and it went floating to the top! Oopsy! Luckily the guide went up and rescued it! Alice carried it for the rest of the time!
That night we went on the famous backpackers bar crawl! It was hilarious! a great night to end Australia! We're sad to be leaving but excited to get to Asia and experience a totally different culture! Singapore here we come!
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