Cairns, Magnetic island and Whitsundays

Wow, what a month! This has possibly been the best month since i started travelling, all those months ago! I dont really know where to start, so i shall start at the beginning!

Cairns:
I left perth for Cairns and as soon as i arrived i just felt really excited! You know when you get off the plane full of excitement and you know your going to have a great time, like you smell the air and you go oh it smells different! Cairns itself is really small, like there is one main strip on the esplanade where there are heaps of cafes, a night market, with heaps and heaps of backpacker accommodation. From cairns there is no end to the day trips you can do, it would take you forever to finish them all! The first trip i did was an overnight trip to Cape Tribulation, which was spectacular. There was so much rainforest around that it was breathtaking! Additionally we went on a river cruise trying to spot some crocodiles, which we saw a few but not heaps and big monsters like i was hoping, but still enjoyed it. In Cape Tribulation there was a beach, so for the most part i just sat on the beach for ages, but we couldnt swim in the ocean because there were stingers and crocs in the area, boooooo! The backpacker hostel was lovely, like small cabins and met loads of lovely people, like a young 18 year old (its times like that when i realise im not 18 anymore) from adelaide, a woman from czech republic and a french canadian guy, all nice and friendly! We went out for dinner, which was fun! Once i had got back from cairns, i went on a hot air balloon ride, which was fun and the views were spectacular! The next day i snorkelled the great barrier reef, also incredible! The fish and the coral had so much colour in them, was amazing to see! It is one of the great wonders of the world and i have seen it! Pretty incredible really. The following day i went white water rafting, was heaps of fun! Everyone in our boat gelled so much that it was a really fun day and we got so wet was so much fun! I also went to the waterfalls in the tablelands where peter andre filmed mysterious girl and where the herbel essences advert was filmed, so now my life is complete!!!!

Magnetic island:
I left cairns at 6am in the dark to get on the ozexperience bus, where as far as i was concerned the real east coast trip began! We drove from cairns to Townsville where i was to get on a ferry to go to a small island off Townsville that resembled something from lost! The hostel was awesome, was right on the beach, the dorms were small hut cabins and made some tight friendships with the girls that were in my dorm! The hostel had a bar so mainly we got pissed on the night and got some r 'n' r in the day! The daytime we went on a walk to spot some koalas. Then we went to a koala sanctuary where i got to hold one, which was pretty sweet! The island itself has heaps of beaches, so was lovely, like something from a postcard!

Airlie Beach/Whitsundays
Airlie Beach is the place you go to do your whitsunday sailing trip, which i have been looking forward to doing since before i flew out to Australia! Airlie Beach itself is incredibly small, its like one street where the shops and bars are, it is designed for tourism i feel. Airlie Beach at night is pumping but the daytime is a bit boring. It does have a lagoon where you can go for a swim and sunbake. They have a lagoon because you cant swim in the water because of the stingers! The bars are quite good, they have happy hour on every night and free drinks for ladies some of the time. The whitsunday trip itself was good, although it was raining for most of it, but you just have to make the best of it. We did snorkelling, rainforest walk, whitehaven beach (the finest sand in the world, only nasa can take sand as its heritage listed). The last few days had more sunshine so everyone got their tan on. The saling itself was pretty awesome, the boat was on a high angle, so it went super fast and everone got soaking wet, was awesome fun! Once i got back to Australia i caught up with a friend and we watched the royal wedding, was awesome to say that i was watching the wedding in a backpacker bar in Airlie Beach in Queensland in Australia!!!! Was fun though everyone was merrily drunk and cheering when certain people came on they telly!! Elton and the queen got the biggest cheer haha! I though william is getting ugly though haha!

So thats my month, pretty bad month ey?! The next stop is fraser island,  a sand island where u camp out and theres like a ship wreck and stuff! Im going via a cattle station for one night where i get to wrestle goats, crack a whip and ride a mechanical bull! looks fun! Im enjoying myself heaps at the moment but not much longer left really so making the most of my time here!

Perth, WA

So I left my home for 2 and a half months to come travelling and finish my trip in style! The last week at Meeka, was actually pretty awesome. Maybe that was to do with i was working less and drinking more? Well i was working roughly 4 hours a day, with some mornings off, some evenings off, so gave me plenty of opportunities to have some laughs. I was taken out by a local trucker type guy to the red dirt ( i can just imagine my mom cringing when she's reading this!) so, quickly did my morning duties of cleaning other peoples shit and off we went in his ute, in an unrelated issue i am so getting a ute when i can drive, talk about awesome! anyway we went to see some red dirt, an old well where the first settlers would get the water from, bit random but i thought it was cool. oh and there was a random seagull flying around the outback, thought that was odd, like why??? then alan (the trucker) threw some chips at him and even now like more than 10 years after the seagull in torquay event i screamed into the ute!!!!! i so need counselling for my seagull fear!! oh and i climbed a mini ayers rock, saves me from going now haha. then we went back to the pub and we all got drunk, like really drunk!!! was drinking beer, jacks, bundy and i didnt pay for one drink!!!! thats the good thing about small town aussie guys they like to buy slim(ish), white, foreign backpackers drinks, cant think why?!!!! but was a good night, was a few of us by the time it was closing time and i made a fool out of myself by dancing on the pool table. (was going to be detailed there but realised my mom, dad and nan might read this haha) ......the next day was the eve of my departure and yes i got drunk again, and again i didnt pay for one drink. but i do remember having a food fight in the kitchen, was halarious!!!!

anyway the next day was d day, departure day! so i got up, like a kid on christmas and got on the bus and we went to mount magnet as our first stop and i only bumped into a regular from the pub and so i swapped the stinky bus for his ute!! i so have an obsession over ute's! we drove back and we hung out at his folks place for a few hours, where we all went out for japanese dinner, all paid for by his company haha, then he dropped me at my hostel, wouldnt get that with the bus!

During my time at perth, i went to museums, the fremantle prison (which was awesome, so interesting for a geek like me!) felt like i was in chicago or shawshank redemption. when we was walking the corridor where the cells where, i just wanted to belt out "if you'd have seen it, if you'd have been there you would have done the same!" except that it was a mens prison not the only female prison where there is a hair and makeup department. looked round the parks etc. If im being honest i have found perth to be the most boring city so far. i think i prefer the smaller places, i think once you have seen the main sites to a city, not a lot to do really. It also doesnt help that im staying in a really bad hostel, serves me right for being so cheap. bad showers, bad mattress, too noisy, people are clicky so yeh bad hostel. but leaving for cairns on tuesday, where i will be going to cape tribulation, snorkelling, white water rafting, hot air ballooning, going on some hikes, inbetween hanging about on the lagoon. Going to get my tan on, hopefully the wet season should have ended by now, fingers crossed!!!!!