Last Wednesday me and Robyn went white water rafting on the Tully river. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty much s**ting myself, I'm the kind of girl who pays into Flamingo Land and only goes on the waltzers.
It turned out that it was one of my favourite things I've done so far. The weather was lovely, we were really lucky. The only thing was that there hasn't been as much rain this year so the water levels were quite low. I'm definitely going to do it again next year once the water levels are back up again.
Got to say, the most difficult part of the day was having to get changed by the side of the road. The bus driver wouldn't let us back on with our wet clothes on but there was literally nowhere to change. The guide directed us to the other side of the bus which was supposedly the 'womens side' we got there and there was this chinese guy just stood there! So we had to change in our towels, not the easiest thing I've ever done =/
That night our group went for our version of the last supper. It was the Alexs' last night in Cairns and I was leaving early on Friday morning. We went to this lovely little restaurant called Mondos and as it was Wednesday we could get fajitas and a drink for $20 so we all had that and it was really nice.
It was sad saying bye to Alex again but I know she is doing what is right for her and hopefully we will meet up again when they get back to Oz later in the year. Gotta say i'm a bit jealous that they are heading back to Bali as well!
On Thursday me and lougles went shopping at DFO, which is basically a discount shopping centre. It's the only place in Oz that i've ever found a bargain. Shorts for $2 and some flip flops for $5. I'm really gunna miss Lou and I hope we keep in touch.
Yesterday I was up early to come to the outback to work. I'm at a place called sunset tavern in Karumba. The money is pretty good and there is literally nowhere to spend it so i'm hoping I will save enough money to travel down the East Coast in style.
The bus picked me up at 6.25am and is meant to arrive in Karumba at 5.30pm, which is bad enough. It ended up being half 6 by the time I finally got here. As we were driving through the outback I felt like I had landed in a scene from Wolf Creek. There literally is nothing there. Just dirt tracks, a couple of houses and a garage/restaurant/ general store. I felt a bit of relief when I got to Karumba because
compared to the rest of the places this was actually quite lively. The tavern is very busy so i'm sure the time will go quite quickly and i'm looking forward to working on the bar. The house was a bit of a shock. There's 10 of us living here and they have literally squeezed as many of us in as possible. It was pretty grotty and at first I didn't know what i'd gotten myself into but Rach cleaned up and its not as bad now. I'm sure i'll soon get used to it. I'm missing the pool already though!
That's about it for now. I want to write an entry on the aboriginals but i'll save that for another time.
Love to all
xxx
Friday, 11 May 2012
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Tablelands and waterfall tour
I can't believe I have been in Australia for nearly three weeks. The time is flying by. The 2 Alex's arrived last Fridaybut it doesn't feel like they have been here over a week already. It has been great having them here, home away from homeand i'll be sad to see them leave.
Little things about Oz are still surprising me. After more than 2 weeks here I yesterday realised that they don't have 1 or 2 cent coins. So even though things are priced at $1.99 if you give them $2 you don't get any change! I don't get why they don'tjust have the price at the full $2, they aren't fooling anyone with their 99c lol.
After the Alex's got here last Friday I took them on a tour around Cairns and we went for lunch. I'd warned them about how expensive Oz is but like me I don't think they realised the scale of it until they got here.
That night their friends the 2 sam's came over and we had some goon and headed out to a local bar called P.J O'Brians. Well actually we tried to go to the wool shed but the sam's didn't have any id and even though they are clearly over 18 they wouldn't let them in so we headed over the road. It ended
up being a really funny night, We busted out the inbetweeners moves and had a nice little routine going by the end of the night.
Last Thursday we went on another day trip. The weather the last week hadn't been great, it's still the wet season here so we had a few showers. Luckily the weather was a lot better for the trip but as we were in the rainforest it still got a bit cool.
We visited a few different places including Babinda Boulders, Josephine falls, Milla Milla falls and the Curtain fig tree. I think Josephine Falls and Milla Milla were my favourites. At Josephine there is a small pool at the bottom of the falls where you can go swimming and there is a natural water slide which was great fun.
We were a bit nervous getting in as on the way there our tour guide had told us about all these people dying there and a few months before 2 locals had to be rescued due to flash floods. Girl alex was a wimp when we got there and complained about the water being too cold but we convinced her to get in in the end and i'm sure she enjoyed it.
Milla Milla was beautiful. It is where Peter Andre filmed the mysterious girl video so we had fun re enacting that ha. And a few herbal essences head flicks. The water was absolutely freezing though so we didn't stay too long.
I'm trying to get a job now, handed in my c.v at a few places but no luck so far. Hoping to hear back from a few places but it is so hard to get a job here. Everyone is trying to get a job and although it is getting to be the busy season it still hasn't properly kicked off yet so not many places are hiring. Although I have a bit of money left I think I will give it to the end of next week and then go for some outback/ fruit picking work just to get some money in. I'll be sad to see the back of cairns
though as I'm really settled here and I really love the atmosphere and everything about the city.
Think that's everything for now.
Love to you all xxx
Little things about Oz are still surprising me. After more than 2 weeks here I yesterday realised that they don't have 1 or 2 cent coins. So even though things are priced at $1.99 if you give them $2 you don't get any change! I don't get why they don'tjust have the price at the full $2, they aren't fooling anyone with their 99c lol.
After the Alex's got here last Friday I took them on a tour around Cairns and we went for lunch. I'd warned them about how expensive Oz is but like me I don't think they realised the scale of it until they got here.
That night their friends the 2 sam's came over and we had some goon and headed out to a local bar called P.J O'Brians. Well actually we tried to go to the wool shed but the sam's didn't have any id and even though they are clearly over 18 they wouldn't let them in so we headed over the road. It ended
up being a really funny night, We busted out the inbetweeners moves and had a nice little routine going by the end of the night.
Last Thursday we went on another day trip. The weather the last week hadn't been great, it's still the wet season here so we had a few showers. Luckily the weather was a lot better for the trip but as we were in the rainforest it still got a bit cool.
We visited a few different places including Babinda Boulders, Josephine falls, Milla Milla falls and the Curtain fig tree. I think Josephine Falls and Milla Milla were my favourites. At Josephine there is a small pool at the bottom of the falls where you can go swimming and there is a natural water slide which was great fun.
We were a bit nervous getting in as on the way there our tour guide had told us about all these people dying there and a few months before 2 locals had to be rescued due to flash floods. Girl alex was a wimp when we got there and complained about the water being too cold but we convinced her to get in in the end and i'm sure she enjoyed it.
Milla Milla was beautiful. It is where Peter Andre filmed the mysterious girl video so we had fun re enacting that ha. And a few herbal essences head flicks. The water was absolutely freezing though so we didn't stay too long.
I'm trying to get a job now, handed in my c.v at a few places but no luck so far. Hoping to hear back from a few places but it is so hard to get a job here. Everyone is trying to get a job and although it is getting to be the busy season it still hasn't properly kicked off yet so not many places are hiring. Although I have a bit of money left I think I will give it to the end of next week and then go for some outback/ fruit picking work just to get some money in. I'll be sad to see the back of cairns
though as I'm really settled here and I really love the atmosphere and everything about the city.
Think that's everything for now.
Love to you all xxx
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