I left Cairns on Thursday night, something I wish I hadn't had to do - if I could have seen all of Australia from Calypso I would have, what a place! Met some awesome people there, really recommend people stay there when visiting Cairns!
I caught the bus at 12.20 am Friday morning to have as long at Calypso as I could. The bus arrived on time, with only about 9 of us heading south, so was nice room for us all.
The bus arrived in Airlie Beach around 11am and I spent the day there. Airlie was the gateway to Fraser Island, and it was a nice place, the beach was lovely, but the strip set-up kind of reminded me of Kavos, very touristy. I got back on the bus at 7 for a 20 hour journey to Brisbane...God what a long Journey.
As we left Airlie, the driver put on a DVD for our entertainment - Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Has anyone seen this? It's based on a book series apparenty, where there are evil and good owls, and the evil owls are planning a plot to take over and a young, naive owl saves the day. It's kind of an owl based version of Lord Of at the Rings, only worse....
Luckily, I slept most the night, and bit if the day, so the journey wasn't too bad. When I wasn't sleeping, I was reading Michael McIntyre's autobiography. Wow that guy has led a life, very interesting, very funny read, very sad also in places. Definitely recommend getting that! (I finished it, in case anyone wants to borrow it)
Eventually after seeing a coach-window tour of the east coast, I arrived in Brisbane at 3pm. Suzanne was there to pick me up, and we were on our way to her house as soon as we paid the $20 parking ticket incurred for 30 mins parking (apparently, Brisbane is in the top 5 most expensive places to park in the world, alongside London and NYC!)
We went to Mount Coot-Tha (or something) where you can see right over Brisbane. Brisbane from Hight and distance is a beautiful city, lots and lots of Green and a meandering river running through. Suzanne actually lives in a suburb which I can only relate to looking like Sneyd Park.
We went to dinner last night with a couple and another of Suzanne's friends, and it was a very pleasant evening that I enjoyed, lots of typical questions aimed at an English Tourist, and a little educating on all things Oz for me.
Not really sure the plans from here, think Suzanne is gonna show me around Brisbane and the Gold Coast, which will be nice :) as always, I'll keep you updated ;)
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