Lake

Woke up at 6am, again. I knew we had to wake up early so needless to say, barely slept a wink. We had to check out before we could go on our tour so Lydia and I had breakfast and moved headed back to the room. Inside, almost everyone was awake. It turns out 5/8 of us had tours or buses at 7/7,30. I felt super bad for the 3 that didn't as they must have been woken up but it made getting out so much easier.

The bus picked us up a few streets away and then proceeded to drive around the entire city picking people up. There were 24 of us in total, and such a range. Most were back packers but there were a few families and a couple of older American ladies. It was a good group.

The drive was quite long to our first stop but we saw a lot of the landscape. We drove past on of the hills that has this pyramid shape. Every year locals and tourists race up and back down the mountain, starting and finishing in the pub. The record is held by a German tourist who happened to be passing through on the day. He completed it in 1hr and 20mins. Insanely fast. And there is only one rule, if your going up you get out of the way of the ones coming down. When you are coming down you are going so fast stopping is not an option.

Our first stop was Babinda boulders. According to Aboriginal legend it is where a woman drowned whilst waiting for her lover as they ran from her husband and his tribe. According to recently surveys, 20 people have died in the area since, 18 of which were young guys. It was insanely pretty with the sunlight breaking through the trees. You could swim there but we didn't. The tour guide gave us some tea and biscuits here as well which was surprisingly good.Read more