A friendly local

10am I took the bus to Donohue’s to go shopping, I got a real Australian made hat. I was about to take the bus back, but I had no cash left, since I got rid of them before I am going home. I asked the stupid tourist question; do you take card… No, we don’t, so I found 1$ 40cents in me wallet, but the ticket was 3 dollars, The guy behind me asked if I was going to the city, yes I was, he asked the bus driver how much for 2 got replied 6$ so he passed me 6$ and we both got on the bus J. Now I was the really thankful and again it was just 3$ to save my day. I got a Takeaway wrap and hat it on the edge of the water, hmm... delicious! I got my suitcase packed with the most of my stuff. I borrowed a scale at the hostel and my suitcase was 22,5kg and I am allowed 23 kg on the plane J. 04:15pm I went to sailing again. This time on another boat, some really nice people, after the sailing we got a smaller dinner on the boat, Chicken wings, cheese and biscuits, with a beer, it doesn’t get any better than that. Afterwards I helped packoing up the boat, the guy who owned the boat had made a lot of extra homemade covers for the boat, so he could keep the windows open without getting rain in. A really good day again.

I Got Wrecked at SS Yongola

I had to get up at 05am to walk to the bus 20 minutes prior to departure. I boarded the bus at 06:10am. In the bus a guy from the other end of the bus came up to me, I guess because I was the only one else awake. He asked if he could borrow my phone to confirm a booking for his future trip, sure why not, so he borrowed it and he was really thankful.

I arrived at Ayr a city where I had to get off the big bus and get picked up by the dive shuttlebus. You just know it is going to be a good day when the driver starts, by playing Red hot chili peppers at 7:30am and shifting gear to the music, ahahah, it was hilarious. Just a really good vibe and good information on the way out to the dive base.

We got there around 08am and started doing the paperwork and finding gear. Then we had some time to say hi to the others we were going out with, we were 11 in total, a couple from Australia, a couple from Spain, a couple from Germany, a guy from the states, a Japanese girl, a German girl, an English guy and me. 9:30 we got in the back of a car with benches, like in the military. The first guy hit his head on the way in and I hit my back on my way in, awch… We got to the beach, just another 10 minutes of waiting for the staff to get the boat in the water with an old International and we were good to Sail. A good vibe and really nice people all the way out. On the first dive my gopro died again… I found out that the pressure hits the off bottom in so that the camera turns off, so that is too bad, but it is alright because I saw it all. I Saw my first big ray, yaaaaay!!! And a large napoleon fish. On my second dive we got a really good view of the 110-meter-long wreck and it is as they say the fish at the wreck are so used to divers that they are not afraid of them, so you better watch out or you will get so close you think you are about to hit them. Back on the boat we saw a Loggerhead turtle in the surface, amazing!!!

When we were back in the tide was a bit lower, so we got dropped off the front of the boat into knee/hip deep water while the boat was reversing, we had to walk about 200 meters through the swells and knee-deep water. Back on the strand we got picked up by the car again.

We got back to the base and all got a chance to shower and change while the crew made us late Lunch, Yummy, we got build yourself burgers one with beef and one with sausage. I got arranged a lift with the Australian couple, they came from Cains and were planning on staying a night in Townsville, so I saved the dorm room and the bus ticket home, yaa. What a day I got a lot of good friends, we left the dive base around 04:30pm and I was back in Townsville around 06pm, right at the door. The rest of the day I just chilled and packed out and talked with a new roommate from England.

Why I don’t do the laundry

I did my laundry and got in the kitchen and made breakfast. While having breakfast I met a really cool guy from London who is about the same age as myself, as I finished my breakfast he asked if I knew a good place to go out for breakfast for sure, we had such a long conversation that I almost forgot my laundry, So james went out to get brunch and I hung up my lundry. Around midday, I went out to another big shopping center to see if I could find some survenirs or something funny to purchase. It was a big center with a lot of different things, I got a really good pesto sandwich for lunch and found some cool survenirs. I got to see the whole city because the bus had to go to the bus stops all the way around castle hill, so 15 minutes bustur ended up being 40 minutes, but I wasen’t in a rush and it didn’t cost extra.

When I got back there were still about an hour and a half to sailing so I walked down to the beach to met up with Jarla and Nele, but I met them on the way and we ended up in the public kids waterpark and a short visit to the library.

I went straight to sailing, I was all ready for unhinched and I was signed up and all good, but unhinched got overbooked and I ended up on another boat with another young bloke who has just moved to Townsville to study engineering. He had sailing experience and it happened to be a really cool boat. They were all pensionists, so no hurry and most of them had over 30 years of sailing experience from all over the world so I learner a couple of things too.. We got champagne and a really nice sunset on the way out and the castalations on a clear sky on the way back.

The old couple we were sailing with asked me and the other guy if we would like to come visiting them some day to see their farm and all their animals, yea sure we were so ready and they only live 5 minutes down the road from billabong, I plan to try and visit them at least once before I go back home After sailing the older couple got our contact info, since we didn’t bring our phones, in case we would get wet. I walked with the other guy to his car where his phone was, so he got my number and we are in touch now. (I can say now because I write a bit late that I don’t think im gonna make it because they haven’t called me. but they were really sweet and welcoming.) it is too bad that I met them so late, but it’s a part of the journey.

I got back to the hostel at 09:15pm where I met Alisson, which now is a nightmaneger, Kenzo and Carolina was there aswell to keep her company behind the desk. We had a good chat, teasing each other. On the way to my room I noticed some laundry hanging and it looked like mine, IT WAS MINE!!! F*K so I got It all down and carried it up to my room to realize that my underwear wasn’t fully dry, so I made a quick solution and hung them up in the bed. I was so tired, I talked a little with Nele and went straight to bed. 10pm godnight.

Thursday Kim was back, we had a veterinary and his assistent to come see and do a health check to the animals at the park, they checked one crocodile with a bad tail, we saw Kim and Dave catch it and the veterinary looked at it.

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