Since my last post Brian and myself have gotten used to doing a whole lot of nothing.
We wake up early cause the tent has turned into a nice big glass house. We sweat our way over to the pool side and enjoy the sun on our skin (It's not getting any browner, or reder I should add.) We relax in the cool waters of the swimming pool. We find it in ourselves to peel off the sun loungers and into the car and head for a stroll around what ever town we happen to be in. We might enjoy some beans on toast and a cup of tea under the shelter of the kitchens roof as we stare out at the cloudless sky. Or we might enjoy a nice, quiet drink and a chat with some friends! Tough really.
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...after the Whitsundays we hung around in Airlie Beach for another few days. We bumped into girls from college and we all caught up as we lazed by the man-made lagoon by the sea. Every day the same spot. We had a daily visitor to our spot too, in the form of Flo a lovely local bird. She was very friendly and liked a good old snoop around at all our stuff. She got a bit too close to Brian one day, stealing a sandwich right from his hand. He's not too happy with the birds here. A bush turkey pecked a hole in our tent too....
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| Airlie Beach |
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| Flo, snooping |
It was hard to drag ourselves away from gorgeous Airlie but after a cool ten days of relaxing we thought it about time to move on.
But we didn't get far.
Two hours north we reached Townsville and after a quick sleep we headed out on a boat over to Magnetic Island. The place was, again, absolutely gorgeous! We managed to stay away from the beach and the pool and decided to rent bikes for the day. Magnetic is a small place and had decided that, because we'd only planned two days here, we would get out there and see the place. But no one told us about the many, many steep hills the island possessed! And after daaaays of doing nothing it was a bit of a challenge. But even though they were a pain to get up, they were a thrill to rush down. AND we got to see a wild koala, so all was forgiven. And back to the misbehaving birds... a kookaburra stole Marguerites breakfast right from her hands too.
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| The bikes |
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| Our reward after the cycling |
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| AMAZING mexican mush enjoyed in Magnetic |
After Magnetic Island and another stop over in Townsville, (where some nice person, in the dead of night, broke into the car, which was two feet from the tent, and stole my cheap ass Australian phone but managed to miss the iPhone and a sat nav), we headed to Cairns. Here the temperature sky rocketed and I sadly started to melt! Seriously. And it's only spring!! Again we got into the lovely routine of doing absolutely nothing. Which is great really. Can't be straining ourselves. We got into such a state of melting and over heating it got too much for me to even get the camera out. Shame really. Place was lovely. I did manage to get a picture of the HUGE bats that kept us company at night however. They were like Batmans in the sky.
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| The Bats! |
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| Our woodland campsite |
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| A sign located in the mens bathrooms at the campsite |
Cairns was where we also noticed the big hole in our wallets and now our mission is to find jobs or we will be off to Thailand very, very soon. Don't know if that's a bad thing really. Can't imagine working now after all this relaxing. I need to get back to travelling!!
