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Saturday, December 11, 2004 hahaha. using my sis's laptop now. she gets free internet access from her company (: okie so as i promised heidi i'm gonna blog abt what i'm up to... i'm having the best time of my life here man haha! okie so first few days we stayed in the beautiful whitsunday! the airport was really cool. hahah. it's like. uhhh... really small and open air and cosy! haha. we had to claim our luggage from the truck itself. but somehow it felt really nice. and homey. yup. oh but we stayed in a super luxurious apartment on top of a hill overlooking the whole Airlie Beach, which is a town by the coast. it's really really beautiful. the ocean is like right at your doorstep and really really blue. except it's really tedious climbing up and down the hill. haha. it's like a 30 degree slope. yeaaah. so first thing we did there was to go on board cruise whitsundays. it's a gigantic catamaran cruise thingy which was very clean and comfortable and new and everything. oh and i tanned on e upper deck which was open air. wahaha there were a lot of hotbods around. eye candy whoo hoo. okie so we reached the pontoon after like so many hours and at one point of the journey everyone got a bit seasick. headache and stuff. okie so we reached the pontoon and we put on stinger suits which are basically wetsuits that protect you from jellyfish stings. after that we went snorkling! very very fun! haha. and the corals and fish and everything are beautiful. we went really close to the corals and everything on the snorkle safari which is a guided tour kinda thing. haha. oh and we took a ride on the glass bottom boat and we got really close to the corals too. we saw a giant cuttlefish. oh and they had a slide on the pontoon which is quite fun. oh yeah the seawater is very very very salty. it's disgusting when it seeps into your mouthpiece or goggle. oor whatever. haha. okie so second/third day at the whitsundays, we went sailing! sailing is really super super fun. coz when you catch a nice big wind the boat just tips over like like like... it just tips over a lot. very fun. i don't mind retiring to sail everyday. we were supposed to go to the whitehaven beach which is like its name suggests, really white. but i think e capt said we wouldn't be able to anchor there so we went to another beach. oh btw, even MORE hotbods here! even the photographer was hot oh maaannn... . wahhaha. just joking la. not that they aren't hot. i'm just not crazy over them. haha. i think that's all for now. but we went to a lot of places ok! and we're gonna lean surfing on monday! can't wait!!! ok i think i shall list out the places we went to just for reference: whitsunday: airlie beach, great barrier reef, chance bay brisbane: the city gold coast: surfers paradise, runaway bay/harbour town, dreamworld, coolangatta ballina: ballina fair grafton: jacaranda motor inn coffs harbour: fisherman's co-op port macquarie: tacking point lighthouse, lighthouse beach (crabby place) laurieton: got lost--> caravan park newcastle: quest service apartment, port stephens, one mile beach, stockton beach (32km, 30m sand dunes) [CURRENT LOCATION. not sand dunes, newcastle.] and we're gonna go to: sydney! oh my oh my. and i've got so many many photos! 6:29 PM
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