After leaving Dolphins in Noosa behind, I knew my next hostel had a lot to live up to. I stayed at 'Cool Bananas' one which had been highly recommend along the way. To a certain degree, I can see why. I met some great people, ate some delicious food (kudos to the chef) and even the wifi was fairly decent. So what was wrong of it? For me, it lacked that personal touch. I found it hard to make friends on my first night. The common room isn't a place for socialising but more for catching up on facebook and to be fair that's exactly what I did!
On the morning of 5th, I got chatting to Tom (aka Ginger Tom) and Sam who are both Brits. After an hour or so of setting the world to rights, we headed up to 'The Museum of 1770' which explores the reasoning behind the name (first place in Australia that Capt James Cook discovered in...1770) as we genuinely looked interested, the kind lady let us in for free. In the evening, Sam and I had fish and chips before getting back on her bus to Airlie Beach.
As you can probably gather, there wasn't a great deal to do here. Our my last day, Tom, Cath and I headed for a wander down to the beach where I took some shots of the girls surfing. We'd planned to go to the market but they'd cancelled our bus. In the afternoon I caught up with emails and even managed to catch-up on Easties with Cath before heading out to watch the sunset with Tom. Out of a group of 6 of us, it was only Tom and myself who ended up watching the sunset. Pretty lame ey? Instead they took off to see some kangaroos. Lucky for us, we got to see both.
Tom and I took the bus up to Airlie beach that night. He kindly let me use his ipad so that I could watch the first 2 episodes of 'Breaking Bad' before he ducked off the bus at Rockhampton. The rest of the bus journey was horrid. Overnight buses always are and why are they always so cold? I hope I never have to take one ever again!
Next stop: Airlie Beach and The Whitsundays
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