Airlie Beach

10.5 hour long bus, saw some kangaroos at a service station, got a dominoes for dinner.

Woke up at 630 for sky dive which got put on hold, watched redzone in reception for 2 hours, put on hold again, super tired and weather only got worse so it got cancelled! Made some avo and poached egg breakfast and rescued the day by going on the Airlie Beach Creek ‘trek’. Was meant to be a super easy walk but we decided to scale an endless amount of rocks, which apparently we weren’t suppose to do so this got us lost on the way back. I punched some edamame looking plant and the plant fought back with some weird hair type pricks that hurt like hell, funny though. Super tired from the walk and my early wake up so we went to the beach for a few hours where I had a nap, got super cold though so left at about 530. For dinner we had fajitas and then checked out the Bingo at Boaties which was a laugh. Met Marit and Ilse. Tried to sleep but the Dutch guys in our room snored like wild boars.

Sailing trip to Whitsundays on the Tongarra. Corey the captain and Cassie the deckhand were lovely we talked travelling and Australia, and even helped with the sails which was fun. Sailing was super relaxing, the stop at the sand bar was lovely and even got to ride the calmest banana boat of all time - still fell off though. Snorkelling was underwhelming because the visibility was so bad but still such a fun day. We got so lucky with the prettiest sunset ever on the way back, listening to Rufus Du Soul, was perfect. For dinner we grabbed some wings and then went to the trivia night where we were terrible. Met Marie and Nick. Couldn’t sleep again because of the extractor fan esque noise from the snorers.

Super chilled morning before trekking to the Honey Eater Viewpoint. This was hot as shit and actually a huge workout. Saw some parrots and bush turkeys on the way up. Met some maniac who cycled to the top too. On the way down, Joe got scared for his life when he almost walked into a giant monitor lizard, was one of the funniest things of the trip. We earned a well deserved 1.5l of mtn dew at the bottom, bought a postcard and then chilled in the pool. For dinner we met up with everyone we met at Trivia night and cooked on the BBQ’s next to the lagoon with some beers - early night before my 5am wake up the next day!

Woke up before sunrise for my long awaited skydive. My instructor was Dawsey and was so nice. The plane journey up I could feel my heart beating out of my chest but the adrenaline was flowing. Genuinely felt like I was in call of duty when the red amber and green lights were going with people flying out of the plane. Being last actually felt so good to have to whole plane to myself. The free fall was absolutely Incredible, I’m so thankful that my other one got cancelled because the day was so clear, I could see right over the entire archipelago of the Whitsundays. I’ll remember this forever.
Chilled for rest of the day by the pool and at the lagoon with David from US before grabbing Maccies for dinner lolLæs mere