the plankmeister's interweblet
Thursday, November 1, 2001
Oh my god. I sound like Barry White. Up at 7:45 to finish packing stuff and catch the 8:45 bus. Is my head sore? Am I hungover? Ohhhhhh yes.
We Clamber aboard the bus expecting a boring journey, but there was a film to watch...
Friday, November 2, 2001
Woke up, found a new hostel to stay in and moved there. Only then did we realise what we'd been missing out on! Our new hostel has a pool, spa, games room, games arcade, internet cafe, bar, restaurant... the list goes on. The...
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
The past few days have been pretty cool! I think the highlight has been spending a couple of hours in a spa-pool with 2 young ladies :) That was.... interesting, shall we say? :)
Went to Warner Brothers Movie World too, but it...
Friday, November 9, 2001
Past few days have been pretty much the same old same old. Surfer's Paradise is getting boring now. Same old faces... Time to move on.
Booked tickets for the 12:25 bus tomorrow to Brisbane. Be there for a couple days sorting out...
Sunday, November 11, 2001
Yesterday (10th) we arrived in Brisbane. Just before we left Surfer's Paradox, I had a chinese massage, and it was awesome!
Brisbane is small. The centre is about the size of Poole town centre (well... maybe a little larger) and...
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Yesterday we went from Brisbane to Noosa heads, which was REALLY boring and poo, so we stayed overnight and then today we coached up to Hervey Bay, which is where all the trips to Fraser Island start from.
When we got to the...
Thursday, November 15, 2001
Today we signed up for the Fraser Island trip, and had the briefing in the afternoon. I think it's going to be an AWESOME trip!
Basically, the way it works is that there are 2 groups going, each group having 8 people. When you...
Friday, November 16, 2001
It's the first day of the trip! I can't wait! I'm up early and everything... got my little bag packed with what I think I'll need, and everything else goes in a locker for the duration.
The trucks are parked up outside the...
Saturday, November 17, 2001
Day two. Early start. Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww. My head hurts. Lots. It's about 7am and I've only had 3 hours sleep and I have a hangover from hell.
We can't drive anywhere before midday though, cos of the tide, so I have a few...
Sunday, November 18, 2001
Day three. I wake up - no. I get woken up - repeatedly - by Mon and Jen (I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO tired) and I'm still drunk. That's good, cos it means I don't have a hangover yet :) I drink about 60 litres of water and have some...
Monday, November 19, 2001
Me, Joven and Kris were in a dorm, but kris had to be up at 5:45am to catch a bus at 6:30. Kris is a top bloke... very funny guy. So I woke up early again to say farewell.
One of these days I will catch up on the sleep I missed!...
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Lastnight we got on the bus at 8:55pm. This morning we got in to Airlie Beach at 9:30am. 12.5 hours on the coach overnight. And NO sleep at all. Lots of dozing, but no sleep. God DAMN! I ache all over! And there's too much to do...
Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Yawn. 2pm. Time to get up! That's a lot of sleep I've caught up on! About 21 hours or so. Nice! I feel much better physically now... not so close to collapse, but now my head feels stuffed with cotton wool. Oh well... can't win...
Thursday, November 22, 2001
We got up bright and early today to go on a day trip to Hayman Island on a big catamaran. What a trip! On the way there, one of the crew, a huge burly bearded rough looking bloke called Wendy (no shit... that was his real name!...
Friday, November 23, 2001
Up bright and early again today to jump aboard Apollo, an 80ft Maxi racing yacht, which will take us round the Whitsunday Islands for 3 days. Not bad eh? There were 24 people aboard, and we all got on really well, which was good...
Saturday, November 24, 2001
It was good that it was an uncomfortable night's sleep though, cos it meant I was awake to see the sunrise, which was absolutely incredible. There was a bunch of clouds on the horizon, so I couldn't actually see the sun, but...
Sunday, November 25, 2001
I woke up too late for the sunrise, but apparently it was poo anyway. Bargain!
After breakfast (AAARRRRRRRR!!!!) we went snorkelling again but there were literally clouds of jellyfish all around which made it a pretty tense 30...
Monday, November 26, 2001
Wow! I don't have a hangover! But I did stay in bed til about 2pm. Lazy bast! Not much to do though... Jumped in the pool for a swim, walked round the lagoon a few times looking for anyone from the boat.
In the evening I went to...
Thursday, November 29, 2001
Past couple days been boring same old same old so it's time to leave. We're heading back down the coast to Hervey Bay, then on to Surfer's Paradise again cos we had such a good time there before.
The bus leaves at 5pm (in about...