Team D Reunion

In the end we decided to spend the day in Airlie Beach with some of the crew from Fraser Island. So instead of catching the 2 pm bus on saturday to go to a nonexistent full moon party on Magnetic Island we got our bus changed to 2:30 am on sunday morning. It may have been the best decision that we have made all trip. The weather was perfect just about all day so we hung out at the man-made lagoon, which as it turns out is french for "the goon"...maybe a bit of foreshadowing for the coming night? (Pic 1: mmmmm BBQ)

Later that day as the sunset we had a huge barbeque with some cold beers at an outdoor publich bbq, which are so cool and would be great to have back in Canada. After that we headed back to the hostel and everyone got stuck into some goon and we hung out on the porch until it was time for us to catch our bus and the rest of the team to head out for the night. It was hands down a legend of a day and definatly hard to say goodbye to everyone for the second time but I think all will agree that we parted ways in style. (Pic 2: the goons)

Now we are in Cairns, our last stop on the east coast tour and as far as our greyhound bus ticket will take us. Good Riddance! I'm pretty sure in the maybe 30 hours that we have spent traveling on that bus, all of which has been overnight to save some money, I could count the hours of sleep I had on one hand. Just been in Cairns for a couple of hours now, and the town is a lot bigger than I expected but everything is closed for Easter. We are staying in a hostel called Gilligans, which is the nicest hostel that we have ever seen. Tommorow we head out for the Great barrier Reef and 2 scuba dives and about an hour of snorkeling... Should be epic. After that we have tuesday to kill and we catch the redeye early weds morning back to sydney. (Pic 3: After finding out that the english guys [really 2 english and an irish] travel with a framed picture of the maverick, tom cruise, at all times, and the queen? we needed the maverick thumbs up pic to end the night...quite possibly the sexiest picture ever)