Porkys Adventure

So me and Will made it to the town of 1770, and immediately were shocked at the small size as it looks like 2 towns on the map! In reality there was only about 100 people living htere, but we immediately settled in in the Cool Bannanas hostel. They had some good rules such as no TV before 3pm, cleaning the kitchen 3 times a day, and renting out loads of movies for the guests everynight. We soon got to know most of the guests by sitting around the outdoor fire at night, playing drinking games, or playing football, and it was cool how everyone knew everyone and got on. After missing the 10am start to the real cheap surf lesson for a 3rd day running we decided to just rent some boards, and head out ourselves, how hard could it be?! Easy! If teh weather would have treated us nicely, instead we were subject to a real killer of a storm, with waves being huge and erratic and coming from 3 different sides!! With Will not being the best of swimmers we soon were in relative trouble, and surviving was more sensible than trying to surf!! As we called it a day Will decided to go behind me, suddenly look like he knew what he was doing, and came towards my head at what looked like 50mph on a huge wave! Just dodging out ofr the way by pushing my board away, he zipped through the gap catching my board wire and dragging me underwater for about 40 meters!! Awesome!! Surfaced pissing myself cos it was so funny! Had a proper surf lesson the day after and managed to do some quality 50 meter efforts!

Next was Rainbow beach, a stop off for people waiting to go to Frasier Island, a huge, fully sand, island. After packing the big 4x4 in the rain, we were off and singing all the way to base camp, having lots of fun sliding around on the sand and bouncing over big roots. Still raining, we managed to set up all the tents, and the taupaulin over the table, the drove to Lake Mckenzie. Weather perked up and the massive fresh water lake was magnificent. All played headers in the water for a while and had a riot, all trying to drink the rations of booze('swillllie!' to the irish)! Rump steak for tea then loud drinking games which attracted 3 other cars of people all to join in the fun! The main Frasier day was nice, long drive down the beach, stopping at a ship wreck, then Indian head where we saw 12 dolphins, manta rays, shoals of fish, flock of parrots, a reef shark and 3 humpback whales jumping and playing in the distance!! Then we went to the champagne pools which had big waves breaking on the rocks and bubbling, like a champagne bottle! Went to a different lake on the way home then had to drive the rest of the way in the dark! After loosing my flip flops on the last night I cut my losses and we set off back to the main land, and was amazed, as we were the first lot off the island, to find my flip flops back at the hostel! Bonkers!!

Noosa was quite a posh little town where we went surfing a few times, despite not being the best waves, and had fun on the squeeky sand!

Onto the first big city of Brisbane, where the clubs are bigger, theres lots to do, and room 19 the 'penthouse suite' was the place to be. After a week of bumming around, visiting the museum, art gallery, pubs, clubs and Subway for far more times than healthy, it was time to, excitedly, head to Surfers Paradise, where the surf is always up and your parking meter is topped up by fabled sexy meter maids!!

Big shout out to Ruth, Nicki, Griff, Karen and the Irish dude will nearly kicked off with!!