Days 29 and 30 - Juggin rodge!!

Day 29 begins with an early morning on magnetic island ready to check out before 10, our heads are a little delicate after a bit of a party on the beach, but we seem to be developing quite an immunity to goonovers so it's not too bad!! We have a good hearty breakfast and say goodbye to all our new magnetic friends including a nice lad called jack and a girl called Gemma, not forgetting Stephanie, they've all been excellent company and we'll be seeing them all down the east coast!! We catch the local bus down to the ferry port, we make the 25 minute journey back to Townsville. Here we have a couple of hours wait for the greyhound bus down to airlie beach! The bus is about an hour late which we're pretty annoyed by this but hey ho, we're on our way! The journey is another long 5 hour one, but we've all got our music and I've got my kindle app on my phone with world war z on the go, brilliant read, I'd recommend it to anyone! Anyway, eventually after a while of driving, we pull into a petrol station and the driver fills the bus with diesel and it costs nearly $800!! We have a couple more hours on the road and we arrive at airlie beach!! It's not my first visit here because we stayed just inland from here at Proserpine for one of the games on tour! It's a bit different from what I remember because the whole Main Street has been dug up! We check into our room at the hostel which is called magnums! We have dorm rooms surrounded by a mini forest, it's got a nice feel about the place! The bar area looks nice so we head down for a couple of beers, just a couple mind... We're all exhausted from travelling all day so we call it a night at about half 11, I'm asleep by 12!

Day 30

Day 30 begins with a little lie in, after this we head out in search of a little breakfast, we don't actually find anything that we want to eat and it's getting towards lunch time and we aren't that fussed so we leave it for a while and have a bit of an explore around, like I mentioned before the main road through airlie is completely dug up, so we have to negotiate all the roadworks! We try to find the office for the boat we're booked on to do the Whitsundays, I'm doing it a couple of days after Tom, Carla and dickie but I find where it is so I can navigate to it when I'm no doubt hanging on Friday morning!! We see a dominos pizza that's got backpackers deals so we head in here for a $6 pizza which is ideal!! This is my only meal of the day as I'm stuffed!! We head back to the hostel and I meet Ryan who's a lad from Yorkshire, I invite him down for a drink but we end up going down to the lagoon (same as in cairns) for a swim and a sunbathe! We have a nice chilled afternoon in the sun then head back to the hostel for a few jugs of beer as its happy hour, which lasts for 4 hours! Love it! We meet up with a lad named robbie who we'd met on magnetic island, we all stay sat for a while consuming some lovely cheap beer! Not sure Ryan is used to this kind of session drinking with the likes of us...pissed! Robbie then tries to convince me to eat an ant which is supposed to taste like lime! I promptly tell him where to go...he swears he'll get me to do it at some point but its not happening!! Ryan tries to blame his drunkness on eating one! We're having none of it! We stay at the bar for a while having a few more drinks before we call it a night, the guys are off on their boat tomorrow so they have to take it slightly easy...ish!! I crawl into bed and try and get a good nights sleep ahead of a long day of doing sod all, chilling out and trying not to spend much money!

Thanks for reading!

Will