Back in Sydney

Pfffff, it's been a while since my last post, it's just we've been doing so much lately, it's hard to keep up with everything. I flew back from Cairns to Sydney 2 nights ago, where me and Erwin had a huge fight the other night, so he went to Perth on his own (more about that later) and I stayed in Sydney with my family. Uhm, where to start.
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Nooooo, of course me and Erwin didn't have a big fight.

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Just look at the top picture, feel the love!!!! Erwin did actually go to Perth without me and is spending his last few days in Australia with Chantal ( and I wasn't invited :) ). Anywayz, as I said it's been a while since I've written anything down and we've been really busy, so let's just start at where I stopped the last post. Which was in Hervey Bay, we just returned from Fraser Island and said our goodbyes to Chantal and Dominique, which was a sad sad moment (Erwin and Chantal are together as I write this, so much for sad goodbyes :p). We did end our trip with a good night out, showing off our dance moves.

The quality's not that good, but our enthusiasm should make up plenty for that. Erwin lifts me up, puts me on his legs, lifts me up again en drags me over the floor underneath his feet to lift me up again (him being very Danny Zuko like and me being more like Olivia Newton-John).

We continued our way up the coast to a small place, called the Town of 1770.
We checked in a laid back hostel and spend a few days there, surfing, snorkeling and being badass (see picture). The hostel was infested with other Dutch people, which is always good for the atmosphere. With a schedule to hold on to, we had to move on and took the night bus north, to Airlie beach.

From Airlie beach we went on a sailing trip along the Whitsundays (a group of islands near Airlie). We already arrived the day before we were supposed to embark and along the day, kept meeting people who would be with us on the boat. Three lads we already met in Noosa were kind enough to introduce us to some of the others (which they had met previously). Already knowing a big part of the group, we were looking forward to go sailing.

The whole group together was composed out of 19 people, 4 crew members and 5 pirates. Yep, pirates, ARRRRRRR :) The whole sailing experience was pretty nice and relaxing. Basically, we sailed for a bit, snorkeled, sailed for a bit more, had diner, drank beers, went to bed and repeat the next day. The crew was great, nice people in our group, decent food and a broken toilet which started to fling poo around the loo, instead of flushing it down. So yeah, good times for sure.

Back on solid ground we continued our way to Magnetic Island. A small island along the east coast, where we did our diving course. Long story short, the course, divided in the practical and the theoretcal part, was piss-easy. Both Erwin and me managed to finish the theoretical exam with a perfect score (we're GEEENIUS!).


I'm gonna rush and write up the last part without even trying to be remotely funny and a lot less detailed (just takes up too much time). So, after our dive course we left Magnetic Island and rushed north to our next stop, Mission Beach. Nice and relaxed, but not much to do there, besides skydiving and white water rafting. Sooooo, that's what we did! Erwin expected the jump to be more scary, thrilling, adrenaline-pumping than he experienced it to be, but he looks pretty psyched to me in the video :)

Erwin's jump. Pretty good!

White water rafting was just one big rush. Great, great fun. Not much to add, if you haven't done it before, go and do it.

After Mission Beach we headed to our last stop along the east coast, Cairns. There, we met James and Rob again, which we met in Byron Bay. The four of us rented a car and drove off to Cape Tribulations, the rain forest north of Cairns. It wasn't that bad (at least I had fun), but to quote Erwin's whining: "I'm so disappointed". Rob and James did a hilarious guided tour, but forgot my cable-thingie so will upload that movie some other time, promise.

After all that, it was time for me to say goodbye to the English lads and Erwin. I'll meet up with Erwin in about a week, when we'll fly to Taipei. Going to my cousin's wedding in Sydney and most likely will meet up with Rob and James in Darwin later this week, so i'm not worried that I will get bored. (btw, picture on the right is of Cape Tribulations).

I usually end a post with a bunch of pictures, but really really really can't be bothered to do so now. So just go watch Erwin's picasa thing, most of the pictures should be there anyway.

There are however, still a shitload of videos I didn't put up before. So there you go, enjoy.


Cleaning up the camp site after a nice barbie and loads of fun.



Erwin and me enjoying ourselves on the beach of lake McKenzie (on Fraser)



English lads put our canoes on the other side of the river. Swim dennis and save our canoes.



Me showing how to surf in Noosa



Me showing how NOT to surf in Noosa