first let me apologize for not writing more. Internet here is like 5$ an hour... realllly expensive. So you can imagine that I am not online too too much.
So let me backtrack and tell you all the adventures from the last few days. I left mission beach and met this cool English dude on the bus down the magnetic island. Everyone here is either traveling north to south, or south to north. Simon (English dude) has a few friends he has met along the way that are also traveling south, and there was a group of 8 of us that all hung out together on magnetic island. We went on a small hike called the fort walk where at the top you can see the forts the aussies built during WWII. Also Magnetic Island has the densest population of koala's and on the walk we saw about 6 or 7... totally cute.
We also rented this buggy like cars and cruised around the island for a day, hitting up all the different beaches, and ended up going food shopping and having a bbq on the beach for dinner, where I saw a wallaby hoping down the road. It is like a really small kangaroo. The hostel on Magnetic Island was cool, really chill, except my room had no AC, so you can imagine how hot it was. At night, after the hostel bar closed down, a bunch of us went down to the beach and just looked at the stars, they are incredible, I saw at least 2 shooting stars.
Yesterday I left Magnetic Island and came to Arlie Beach. I am leaving on a sailing trip today for 3 days and 2 nights on the Whitsunday Islands. Apparently the sand is so white and fine it looks complete white. Should be gorgeous. My boat is something like 24 ft long, with 3 crew members and 24 other passengers. I am a little nervous about getting sea sick, but hopefully ill be okay.
As a side note, I thought Australia would be cheap since the American Dollar is worth more, BUT NOOOO!! it is so f'ing expensive here. Water is like $3. A TINY jar of Peanut Butter is $6, and forget about me ever wearing make up again, because a thing of covergirl mascara that is like $5 in America, is $15 here... YEAH... REALLLLLY expensive.
okay that's it for now... I need to go change some travel plans. After I get back from my boat, I am meeting up with a bunch of ppl from the UK and going down to 1770 with them. (a surf beach town).
shoot me some emails, or post some comments for me.
xo
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Looking at the google maps, it seems as though the mountains go right to the shore. it must be beautiful! And the satellite shots of the Whitsunday beaches are spectacular. Love the blogs. It's nice to know you're having fun.
Love you, Ma
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