Also big for me: not dressing up for Halloween. It's my favorite holiday and I haven't missed it in years but instead of partying I'll be sleeping below deck on a large maxi sail boat. It's ok...I can be a backpacker...or SCUBA diver and I'll just have to make up for it next year.
Anyway, we left Rainbow Beach after our camping adventure on Fraser Island and headed north yesterday. We stopped in the town of 1770 which was founded in, yes you guessed it, 1770. It was gorgeous but no SCUBA diving was to be found so we moved on. We ended up in a tiny beach town called Emu Park and found a fabulously clean place to stay that was also having an $8 Friday night bbq. That may have been the best $8 I've spent in Australia not to mention the totally reasonable $3.50 glasses of wine. And what's better than an $8 bbq? An $8 bbq with frogs hopping out of your barrel table. One seemed to really like Evan's leg but I was not that lucky.
I met a couple of women (Sara and Sara who, despite everyone asking them, are not sisters) from England after the bbq and chatted with them for a while. They are 26 years old and agreed with my assessment that the east coast of Australia is super young and all about partying. It made me feel like less of a grandma and was actually super nice to have some fun female wine drinking companions for a bit.
Today I took a nice morning run along the beach and somehow managed to get slightly lost on my way back. I'm not sure how given there were only 2 roads to run on but I found my way and got an extra 15 mins of a workout.
We took off and drove to Airlie Beach. Evan let me drive today. It was my 2nd time on the other side of the road. The 1st was for about 5 mins to make a beer run. This was a good 2 or more hours. I did ok. Just like Evan when he started out, I seem to drift slightly to the left. I don't know why but I'm sure with some more practice I'll get better. Evan didn't seem to like my driving and I understand. It was really hard to be a passenger at 1st because everything is backwards and you have no control over the situation. We made it safe and sound though, booked our sailing adventure, grabbed some lunner, checked into the hostel, packed for tomorrow, found some free wifi to call Preston (who had surgery for a torn achilles last time I went out of cell range - we'll see what happens this time), and got some ice cream. I'm reading and heading to bed early so I can run and shower before we set sail tomorrow.
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