I headed north to Airlie Beach (also called the Whitsundays) for 5 days. Now, Airlie Beach isn't exactly a beach, more of a man made lagoon with terrible sand, but don't freak out just yet, the good stuff was to come. Thursday I went on an "Ocean Rafter" which is a boat that looks like a white water raft boat but comes with 4 giant motors. It went really fast and hit huge waves that sent us flying in the air.....
NOW....this sounds like fun right? Yea, NO. I had consumed approximately 34 vodka sodas (with extra lime, of course) the night before so my head was freaking POUNDING and my dumb ass was running late (I had stayed at someone else's hostel hahah, so I had to run back to mine to change before I missed the boat).
Anyway, running late and what do I forget? Sunblock. How long has it been since I've been in the sun? 2 months. Amount of pain I am in? A lot.
So after the bumpy ride things got 34589374 better cause we landed on Whitehaven beach (google it, and be jelly) which has the whitest sand in Australia. For real. I've never seen something so beautiful. So after lunch on the beach we headed out to the Great Barrier Reef where we were going snorkeling. Let's get one thing straight, I'm ok with deep water, I am NOT OK with fish. Anything with scales/fins are not my friend. So the little ones are ok, cause they are pretty and I pretend that they are nemo and sing into my snorkel "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming"....and then a fish the size of Texas swims up to me. He has Angelina Jolie lips (seriously, who knew they injected collagen in the Pacific, damn pollution!), he was blue, and he fucking freaked me out.
There I am swimming/singing myself along when all the sudden I take a gander to the right of me and BOOM, Angelina's brother was chillin right next to me like "Hey, how you doing." I then yell, "Holy shit, get me the fuck out of this water." Yea, the hot ass skipper had a good laugh and then lifted me out of the water so I could take some Tylenol, drink some water and continue my mission for Extreme Sunburn Birthday 2009.
Pictures will be on facebook soon. Check em out!
NOW....this sounds like fun right? Yea, NO. I had consumed approximately 34 vodka sodas (with extra lime, of course) the night before so my head was freaking POUNDING and my dumb ass was running late (I had stayed at someone else's hostel hahah, so I had to run back to mine to change before I missed the boat).
Anyway, running late and what do I forget? Sunblock. How long has it been since I've been in the sun? 2 months. Amount of pain I am in? A lot.
So after the bumpy ride things got 34589374 better cause we landed on Whitehaven beach (google it, and be jelly) which has the whitest sand in Australia. For real. I've never seen something so beautiful. So after lunch on the beach we headed out to the Great Barrier Reef where we were going snorkeling. Let's get one thing straight, I'm ok with deep water, I am NOT OK with fish. Anything with scales/fins are not my friend. So the little ones are ok, cause they are pretty and I pretend that they are nemo and sing into my snorkel "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming"....and then a fish the size of Texas swims up to me. He has Angelina Jolie lips (seriously, who knew they injected collagen in the Pacific, damn pollution!), he was blue, and he fucking freaked me out.
There I am swimming/singing myself along when all the sudden I take a gander to the right of me and BOOM, Angelina's brother was chillin right next to me like "Hey, how you doing." I then yell, "Holy shit, get me the fuck out of this water." Yea, the hot ass skipper had a good laugh and then lifted me out of the water so I could take some Tylenol, drink some water and continue my mission for Extreme Sunburn Birthday 2009.
Pictures will be on facebook soon. Check em out!
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