I finally got my beauty sleep and woke up around 14:00. By the time we got to the beach it was already around 16:00 or close. This time I was awake enough to go into the water which was warm and good! Anyway, I hung out there for a while and decided to take advantage of the warm water and try to see how long I can hold my breath (it helps when the water is warm. I'm hoping to break my 3:12min record). So as after one of those "hold your breath and float like a dead body" things, I get my head out of the water and couple of English/Irish girls were there saying they thought I was dead... Not quite though.
After the beach, dinner, and a short reading seassion, we headed back for the party, which was like the night before. At the party there were two people holding a long rope that was on fire (the use fuel of some sort to keep it burning) and they were spinning it so as to allow people to jump over it (like in elemetary school). Why am I mentioning this? Well, because this one girl tried to jump over it and the rope hit her and she caught fire! I figured that her instinct would be to jump on the sand (so I didn't do anything - also I was a bit away). Apparently, it wasn't. Eventually after a few second some folks pushed her down and put her out (of the fire..). Both Nir and I were watching this and when I told him we should have been quicker in helping her, he said his first thought was "cow on fire"...
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friday, July 27: Koh Phangan
I arrived at the islad around noon and then met up with Nir and Nadav. I barely got any sleep on the bus because the AC was tured so high that I was freezing. Also, I haven't brought any warm cloths since Thailand is very hot and humid (I left most of my gear in storage with the Israelis - 15cents a day...).
Despite being tired as hell we all headed for the beach, which was quite loaded with people and finally was warm enough to go into the water, although I didn't go in.
There are loads of Israeli restaurants around here. Hebrew is heard all around and one gets the feeling one is in Israel. Perhaps the most amusing thing is when some little Thai person speaks to you in Hebrew. Quite funny indeed.
Koh Phangan is known mostly for its parties, namely, the full moon and half moon parties, with the former being the biggest. This is also the reason why I headed south first rather than north. The fool moon party is on the 31st, and there are parties every night before then. So at before heading to the beach for all the happening, we all got foot massages, which was really funny. The three of us sitting side by side getting massage for an hour (too bad I didn't bring a camera).
The beach party was quite imressive with lots of people aroud, loud music and some fire poikes (however you spell that). Nir got to meet someone whom we have dubbed "the stalker" for some obvious reasons.. I retired at 4:00am and barely found the sleeping place, as I had been too tired (hadn't slept for about 43 hours except for short nap on the bus) to pay attention how we got to the beach..
Despite being tired as hell we all headed for the beach, which was quite loaded with people and finally was warm enough to go into the water, although I didn't go in.
There are loads of Israeli restaurants around here. Hebrew is heard all around and one gets the feeling one is in Israel. Perhaps the most amusing thing is when some little Thai person speaks to you in Hebrew. Quite funny indeed.
Koh Phangan is known mostly for its parties, namely, the full moon and half moon parties, with the former being the biggest. This is also the reason why I headed south first rather than north. The fool moon party is on the 31st, and there are parties every night before then. So at before heading to the beach for all the happening, we all got foot massages, which was really funny. The three of us sitting side by side getting massage for an hour (too bad I didn't bring a camera).
The beach party was quite imressive with lots of people aroud, loud music and some fire poikes (however you spell that). Nir got to meet someone whom we have dubbed "the stalker" for some obvious reasons.. I retired at 4:00am and barely found the sleeping place, as I had been too tired (hadn't slept for about 43 hours except for short nap on the bus) to pay attention how we got to the beach..
Thurday, July 26: Bangkok - Koh Phangan
I finally managed to finalize my ticket to Romania (not without the usual difficulty). I also got a sim card finally (just gave up about finding out what the calling rates are). Got in touch with Nir, who apparently met Nadav down in the islands. I'll be joining them tomorrow. Speciofically, there's a bus that leaves Bangkok at 21:00 arrives somewhere at 5:00 from where there's a ferry that leaves at 7:00 and get to the island at 11:00 or so. It's a pretty long journey, but not too bad relative to Australia.
Anyway, I spent most of the day hanging out in the Kaho San area. As I mentioned the food is very cheap and in particular so is freshly squeezed orange juice! (80 cents for about 500cc!!). So of course I got many of those. It seemed to me however, that the OJ wasn't really OJ. As I suspected it was actually mandarine juice, which is a close relative and therefore completely fine and quite tasty indeed. Also, I got a new book finally, called Angels and Deamons by Dan Brown. It came wrapped and seemed to be new. Well, techincally it was new, however, it was not original. It was a good copy but I could easily tell it was a fake (but who cares, the information is there).
Anyway, I spent most of the day hanging out in the Kaho San area. As I mentioned the food is very cheap and in particular so is freshly squeezed orange juice! (80 cents for about 500cc!!). So of course I got many of those. It seemed to me however, that the OJ wasn't really OJ. As I suspected it was actually mandarine juice, which is a close relative and therefore completely fine and quite tasty indeed. Also, I got a new book finally, called Angels and Deamons by Dan Brown. It came wrapped and seemed to be new. Well, techincally it was new, however, it was not original. It was a good copy but I could easily tell it was a fake (but who cares, the information is there).
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, July 25: Bangkok
Today has been a most frustrating day. The main problem came to be when I wanted to pay cash for my ticket out of BKK to Romania (about $1000). Anyway, naiively enough I tried towithraw some 1500 USD from the ATM, which didn't work (thanks to the bloody US bank). After trying various amounts with zero success I figured I'd call'em. Surprisingly, there are pay phones that have a Verizon collect call button. Not surprisingly, it didn't work for my number. My guess is that Verizon charges an arm and a leg for such calls and Bank of America is too god damn cheap! To make a long story short, making a simple phone call required more than an hour some times. Ultimately, I managed to get a hold of those Bank of America peolple. Then I got some money out, and then again my card stopped working! So, as it turned out it was blocked, which required yet another conversation with Bank of America...
What else? Ah, getting a sim card. Quite easy to do actually. The hard part is getting the calling rates. Apparently, the sellers only sell those sims, but have absolutely no fucking clue what the rates are..
So much for errands. I've heard some nasty stuff about how badly Bangkok smells. The fact is, that it's really not that bad. When one walks down the street one is continuously offered Taxi, Tuk Tuk (I say "Mi Sham") - that's a motorbike ride, a tailored suit, prostitute, food, massage, and anything else that can be sold.
The food is incredibly cheap here especially on the street. For example, a Pad Thai, which is not too big, but just enough, is 15Baht ($0.5) or 20 Baht with egg. A 500cc bottle of water can be 15 or 30 cents, a one hour full body oil massage 8 buks. Pretty darn cheap...
Speaking of massages, I did get myself one. It was pretty good actully.
What else? Ah, getting a sim card. Quite easy to do actually. The hard part is getting the calling rates. Apparently, the sellers only sell those sims, but have absolutely no fucking clue what the rates are..
So much for errands. I've heard some nasty stuff about how badly Bangkok smells. The fact is, that it's really not that bad. When one walks down the street one is continuously offered Taxi, Tuk Tuk (I say "Mi Sham") - that's a motorbike ride, a tailored suit, prostitute, food, massage, and anything else that can be sold.
The food is incredibly cheap here especially on the street. For example, a Pad Thai, which is not too big, but just enough, is 15Baht ($0.5) or 20 Baht with egg. A 500cc bottle of water can be 15 or 30 cents, a one hour full body oil massage 8 buks. Pretty darn cheap...
Speaking of massages, I did get myself one. It was pretty good actully.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 24: Singapore - Bangkok
I spent the first 3/4 of the day in Singapore mostly hanging out and running some errands. At 20:40 I had a flight to Thailand. The folks at the check gave me the "15kg" restriction bullshit, which inconvinienced me quite a bit. Apparently, 15kg for the check in bag and 7 for the carry-on. I had a total of about 25kg. So it suddenly got really cold at the airport and I needed to wear my fleece and jacket and long pants....
The Bangkok airport is quite impressive. From first look it seemed like Thailand is quite advanced. Then I got the main street arond 12:00am (Kao Sahn - I am probably badly misspelling this), and saw the familiar signs of a third world country: 3-person motorcycle, crap cars, dirty, weirdos on the street, locals that try to sell you anything that you need and don't need - but mostly don't need. At the main street there's the "Israeli connection". A huge sign in Hebrew letting all the Israelis know where to congregate. In all honesty, however, these folks are quite helpful in providing various information.
Anyway, I walked around and found myself a nice place for 520 Baht (~17USD), which is relatively expensive around here, but I needed a clean place.
Did a bit of walking around before going to bed, and sure enough the lady boys where all around (one more for the 3rd world country signs..)
The Bangkok airport is quite impressive. From first look it seemed like Thailand is quite advanced. Then I got the main street arond 12:00am (Kao Sahn - I am probably badly misspelling this), and saw the familiar signs of a third world country: 3-person motorcycle, crap cars, dirty, weirdos on the street, locals that try to sell you anything that you need and don't need - but mostly don't need. At the main street there's the "Israeli connection". A huge sign in Hebrew letting all the Israelis know where to congregate. In all honesty, however, these folks are quite helpful in providing various information.
Anyway, I walked around and found myself a nice place for 520 Baht (~17USD), which is relatively expensive around here, but I needed a clean place.
Did a bit of walking around before going to bed, and sure enough the lady boys where all around (one more for the 3rd world country signs..)
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday,July 23: Singapore
I have to start this entry with a bit about my dorm fellas. There are 3 Africans that have continuously been getting on my nerves. They are all here trying a get a job. There's one Internet computer. These guys are monopolizing it, which is very annoying, and they are beyond slow (you know typing with one finger - or was it two??). Anyway, what really ticked me off was when one of them had a phone call at about 4:15am and he was speaking so fucking loudly that it woke me up (and I had just went to bed maybe a couple of hours before..). Then again, at 8:00am they start talking like there are no sleeping people. Unbelievable.
Ok, enoug venting. Today I had a really good dish for lunch, whose name I canot remember (obviously). Then saw Die Hard 4(with Cinese subtitles...). It was actually a pretty good movie. In the evening I met the Chink for dinner at a place called Newton, which apparently has a food fare going on a the time we were there, but no at the same day...
I spent a lot of time trying to make a collect call to the US (credit card stuff). Apparently, there are no Sing Tel (national phone company) paypjones that are coin operated. Now one would ask why would I need coins to make a collect call? Well, it seems collect calls cost money in Singapore, which sort of defeats the some of the purpose of a collect call. Go figure...
Ok, enoug venting. Today I had a really good dish for lunch, whose name I canot remember (obviously). Then saw Die Hard 4(with Cinese subtitles...). It was actually a pretty good movie. In the evening I met the Chink for dinner at a place called Newton, which apparently has a food fare going on a the time we were there, but no at the same day...
I spent a lot of time trying to make a collect call to the US (credit card stuff). Apparently, there are no Sing Tel (national phone company) paypjones that are coin operated. Now one would ask why would I need coins to make a collect call? Well, it seems collect calls cost money in Singapore, which sort of defeats the some of the purpose of a collect call. Go figure...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Sunday, July 22: Singapore
Today I went to a place called Fort Canning Park, which holds singapore's largest bunker from WWII. It did them (theBrits who were in control back then) little use as they ultimately surrendered to the Japanese.
other than that, I went to this main street called Orchard, which is packed with people and is all about shopping. It was nice to stride along, although I have no intention of buying anything.
In the evening I met up with Chinky Boy, checked out one of his ballroom pratice spaces (the chink is doing not too badly).
A few words about Singapore in general: The official language (maybe here's more than one) is English, yet so many people don't seem to know it.. Loads of places to eat, which are all mostly cheap and look alike. The food is decent but I fear I might excede my yearly intake of noodles and rice. So far I've had frog legs, I beleive I mentioned that and also had some other exotic food, which I can't seem to remember!
other than that, I went to this main street called Orchard, which is packed with people and is all about shopping. It was nice to stride along, although I have no intention of buying anything.
In the evening I met up with Chinky Boy, checked out one of his ballroom pratice spaces (the chink is doing not too badly).
A few words about Singapore in general: The official language (maybe here's more than one) is English, yet so many people don't seem to know it.. Loads of places to eat, which are all mostly cheap and look alike. The food is decent but I fear I might excede my yearly intake of noodles and rice. So far I've had frog legs, I beleive I mentioned that and also had some other exotic food, which I can't seem to remember!
Saturday, July 21: Singapore
Today started slow but picked up. In the afternoon I went to a place called Esplanade,which is some sort of a park. There there was a General rehersal for Singapore Day (i.e. Independence day). So I got to see some Hellicopters flying around and the most exciting part was seeing 5 jet fighters crossing the whole area very quickly.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Friday, July 20: Singapore
Long day that was spent mostly on the phone with some Thai travel agents trying to get a flight to Romania (next leg after Thailand), with some but not too much success. The best candidate is Egypt Air...
Other than that we went out to a club called Zouk, which was packed. Unfortunateoly, the club is not nearly as sleazy as I've gotten used to from Australia or as one would hope it to be...:)
Other than that we went out to a club called Zouk, which was packed. Unfortunateoly, the club is not nearly as sleazy as I've gotten used to from Australia or as one would hope it to be...:)
Thursday, July 19 - Cairns - Singapore
Left Cairns at 13:00 and arrived in Singapore at 19:00. The pan is to spend a week in Singapore. it was nice meeting up with Chinky Boy (aka, Song Wei -freind's from the ballroom days).
It's incredibly humid in Singapore, which was quite a shock after 5 months of dry weather. Dinner was most interesting as it was the first time I ate Frog Legs! What can I say, it tastes like chicken...(it really does).
Other than that, it's nice to finally be in a cheap country, where you are not charged an arm and a leg for everything.
The hostel I'm in (which is pretty much the only available one - thanks to the chink for getting it!) is the most crammed ever, with 10 beds in the smallest possible space.
It's incredibly humid in Singapore, which was quite a shock after 5 months of dry weather. Dinner was most interesting as it was the first time I ate Frog Legs! What can I say, it tastes like chicken...(it really does).
Other than that, it's nice to finally be in a cheap country, where you are not charged an arm and a leg for everything.
The hostel I'm in (which is pretty much the only available one - thanks to the chink for getting it!) is the most crammed ever, with 10 beds in the smallest possible space.
Saturday - Wednesday, July 14-18 - Cairns
Nothing particular was going on on any of these days. Most days were pretty much the same with Lagoon during the day and clubbing during the night, although the club scene wasn't too great from Sunday on.
Nir left Wednesday to Sydney (and Canbera to get a new passport....).
Oh, got to see a cupleof movies:
Fantastic 4 - pretty decent
Ocean's 13 - better than Ocea's 12 (can any movie be worse than that?), but still not the greatest movie out there.
Nir left Wednesday to Sydney (and Canbera to get a new passport....).
Oh, got to see a cupleof movies:
Fantastic 4 - pretty decent
Ocean's 13 - better than Ocea's 12 (can any movie be worse than that?), but still not the greatest movie out there.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Friday, July 13: Cairns
We moved to another backpacker called "Serpent", which is better then the current "Beach (bitch) House". Anyway, met a couple of german girl and we all hung out at the lagoon for the better part of the day. The German's where most amusing as they fit perfectly the German stereotype for precision and careful planning.
The Rhino Bar has free dinner thing between 18:30 and 19:30, so we are now going there daily for what we call an appetizer..
We have this Canadian girl in the room, she's been with us in the same room in the previous hostel as well. So there we were eating a bit of Nutella right before going out. And of course, I couldn't help myself so I told Nir and Gilad (in English of course, so that canada understands) that Nutella is the greatest German invention since the gas chamber. She either didn't hear it, or pretended not to have heard it, so of course, I repeated it more loudly a second time...
As always, we went clubbing at night and I didn't get to go to bed until 4:30...
The Rhino Bar has free dinner thing between 18:30 and 19:30, so we are now going there daily for what we call an appetizer..
We have this Canadian girl in the room, she's been with us in the same room in the previous hostel as well. So there we were eating a bit of Nutella right before going out. And of course, I couldn't help myself so I told Nir and Gilad (in English of course, so that canada understands) that Nutella is the greatest German invention since the gas chamber. She either didn't hear it, or pretended not to have heard it, so of course, I repeated it more loudly a second time...
As always, we went clubbing at night and I didn't get to go to bed until 4:30...
Friday, July 13, 2007
Thursday, July 12: Cairns
Woke up early in the morning to do the snorkeling and scuba diving. The experience was Aweful! Spekcifcially, the weather was shit - cloudy, windy, and partly rainy. Conseqeuntly, the boat (vessel, ship - whatever you call it) was rocking like crazy and I thought I made eye contact with the angel of death a couple of times (or was it the Vomit Fairy?).
The dive itself was pretty cool with some beautiful fish and coral. The snorkeling was alright, although due to the waves it was hard to be still. That was important as I was trying to take some photos with a water proof camera that we rented.
In the evening we went to a place called Rhinobar, which was packed. As always, we met some familiar faces from various places. Wasn't too exciting.
The dive itself was pretty cool with some beautiful fish and coral. The snorkeling was alright, although due to the waves it was hard to be still. That was important as I was trying to take some photos with a water proof camera that we rented.
In the evening we went to a place called Rhinobar, which was packed. As always, we met some familiar faces from various places. Wasn't too exciting.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 11: Cairns
Like many towns in Australia, Cairns, too, has something called "the lagoon". Basically, it's a stratch of grass with an artificial body of water. So off we went to the lagoon, which was quite nice.
Additionally, I decided not to pursue Vietnam as my next destination (which was my orignial plan). Instead I'll be focusing on Thailand next.
Other than that we resumed the massive cooking sessions that take forever to complete and leave you half dead.
No bar tonight since I need to wake up early tomorrow for snorkeling and an introductory scuba dive. Should be fun!
Additionally, I decided not to pursue Vietnam as my next destination (which was my orignial plan). Instead I'll be focusing on Thailand next.
Other than that we resumed the massive cooking sessions that take forever to complete and leave you half dead.
No bar tonight since I need to wake up early tomorrow for snorkeling and an introductory scuba dive. Should be fun!
Tuesday, July 10: Cairns
Spent the bulk of the day trying to figure out where to fly next and how to get there. It appears there's a school holiday around here which makes flying not too cheap.
Other than that I met Laura (from the great ocean road) again on the street. It's quite funny how the same people keep popping up.
Oh, and important thing was going to see "The Transformers". It was pretty nice but I expected a little more I suppose. The evening ended with some bar hopping. I guess I'm back to "going to bed at 4:00am" schedule..
Other than that I met Laura (from the great ocean road) again on the street. It's quite funny how the same people keep popping up.
Oh, and important thing was going to see "The Transformers". It was pretty nice but I expected a little more I suppose. The evening ended with some bar hopping. I guess I'm back to "going to bed at 4:00am" schedule..
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 9: Mission Beach - Cairns
I spent the better part of the day still in Mission Beach as the bus to Cairns did not leave until 18:20. I finally got to play some chess! I played some Sweedish guy, and Israeli honor was preserved. In fact, I had a really nice 2-knight mate..
Other than that on the bus up to Cairns we met with Gilad again and the plan is for the three of us to hang out together in Cairns for a while. Then, I'll be going to South East Asia, Nir to Canbera/Sydney and Gilad to Melbourne.
Other than that on the bus up to Cairns we met with Gilad again and the plan is for the three of us to hang out together in Cairns for a while. Then, I'll be going to South East Asia, Nir to Canbera/Sydney and Gilad to Melbourne.
Sunuday, July 8: Mission Beach
Today was Nir's Bday, so I had some 6 Irish gals surprise him with a "happy birthday" song right at breakfast. It was quite amusing.
Other than that I spent most of the day playing tabel tennis and at the beach and eating..
The highlight of the day was actually at 23:00 in the TV room, watching the Wimbeldon finals. Of course, I was the only viewer... Anyway, Federer got his 5th consecutive Wimbeldon title and has become the second person to have done so (Bjorn Borg being the other one..).
Other than that I spent most of the day playing tabel tennis and at the beach and eating..
The highlight of the day was actually at 23:00 in the TV room, watching the Wimbeldon finals. Of course, I was the only viewer... Anyway, Federer got his 5th consecutive Wimbeldon title and has become the second person to have done so (Bjorn Borg being the other one..).
Saturday, July 7: Magnetic Island - Mission Beach
Left Magnetic Island in the morning and headed further north to Mission Beach. In Townsville (that's where one goes to Magnetic Island from), I had the best Burger in Australia, at one of them pubs. Surprisingly enough.
Anyway, Mission Beach is a small place and quite nice. There was a table tennis in the backpacker (called "Scotty's"), which is always an added bonus.
Anyway, Mission Beach is a small place and quite nice. There was a table tennis in the backpacker (called "Scotty's"), which is always an added bonus.
Friday, July 6: Magnetic Island
Today was quite fun. We hired (sorry - "rented" - I guess I've been down under for too long) scooters for 25 bucks for the day and drove across the eastern part of the island. We went on a short walk to a fort that was built during World War II. Other than that I saw some wildlife - namely, small creatures that are like Kangaroos. I'm not sure what they were.
Upon returning to the backpacker, we ran into Gilad - an Israeli who had traveled with Nir in NZ, and whom I've met as well a few times. In the evening there was a party at the backpacker and as always it was most amusing watching some Brits get drunk and almost fighting it out (whatever "it" was - it really doesn't matter).
Upon returning to the backpacker, we ran into Gilad - an Israeli who had traveled with Nir in NZ, and whom I've met as well a few times. In the evening there was a party at the backpacker and as always it was most amusing watching some Brits get drunk and almost fighting it out (whatever "it" was - it really doesn't matter).
Friday, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5: Magnetic Island
It was quite amazing waking up and being too tired to do anything.. So I didn't even do Kayaking or snorkeling (both of which are included in a three day package I got). So I spent most of the day at the beach (which is like 50 meters from the dorm room). The Israeli girls showed up later in the day, and we hung out with them in the evening.
There was a power outage in the kitchen for a few hours. The reason I'm mentioning it is because it will serve to illuminate how "bright" the employees at this backpacker are. They called an electrician, who tool 5 or 6 hours to arrive from the mainland. I told them to simply use an extension cord and connect the fridges to an powered outlet. They refused to do so because of some reason I didn't understand. Eventually, the electrician showed up and it turned out that someone turned off the switch...
The hostel has a bar/party area, which was rather quiet. However, it was amusing meeting some folks from an American Aircraft carrier that had just arrived the previous day. One of them didn't want to talk to us because we're Israeli and we "don't help them". I'm still not sure what he meant by that. Another dude, on the other hand, was "honored" to meet us and was very proud at Israel and said he had wanted to join the IDF, but he is not Jewish, so it probably wouldn't have worked. Quite funny..
There was a power outage in the kitchen for a few hours. The reason I'm mentioning it is because it will serve to illuminate how "bright" the employees at this backpacker are. They called an electrician, who tool 5 or 6 hours to arrive from the mainland. I told them to simply use an extension cord and connect the fridges to an powered outlet. They refused to do so because of some reason I didn't understand. Eventually, the electrician showed up and it turned out that someone turned off the switch...
The hostel has a bar/party area, which was rather quiet. However, it was amusing meeting some folks from an American Aircraft carrier that had just arrived the previous day. One of them didn't want to talk to us because we're Israeli and we "don't help them". I'm still not sure what he meant by that. Another dude, on the other hand, was "honored" to meet us and was very proud at Israel and said he had wanted to join the IDF, but he is not Jewish, so it probably wouldn't have worked. Quite funny..
Wednesday, July 4: Airle Beach - Magnetic Island
Got on the bus at 9:30 and arrived to Townsville at 13:30. On the bus I met again a Sarah, whom I met on Fraser Island, and there were also a couple of Israeli girls I met the evening before. Apparently, everyone was headed to Magnetic Island.
Magnetic Island is a rather small island about 8 km in diameter roughly. I did't do much once I got to the island. We just had a bit of dinner with Sarah and some other girl who's name I can't remember and I'm not quite sure were I've met her. In fact, since Rainbow Beach (Fraser Island), I've been running into lots of people many times and I keep forgetting from where I know them (unless they are of particular interest..).
Magnetic Island is a rather small island about 8 km in diameter roughly. I did't do much once I got to the island. We just had a bit of dinner with Sarah and some other girl who's name I can't remember and I'm not quite sure were I've met her. In fact, since Rainbow Beach (Fraser Island), I've been running into lots of people many times and I keep forgetting from where I know them (unless they are of particular interest..).
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Tuesday, July 3: Airle Beach
Originally, we hoped to leave today, but because of some school holiday there was no room on the bus. Ultimately, that was a good thing, because there's no way I could have been on a bus after the night before. Anyway, so I spent most of the day at the Lagoon doing nothing. I met a huge group of Israelis, but didn't hang out with them too much.
We also met Gilad, who trvaled with Nir in NZ for a while. He is pretty nice and in the evening we all went out, which was quite fun and amusing...
We also met Gilad, who trvaled with Nir in NZ for a while. He is pretty nice and in the evening we all went out, which was quite fun and amusing...
Monday, July 2: Airle Beach
I returned from the Whitsundays cruise around 13:30. Then we (most of the folks from the cruise) went to the Lagoon, which is a much nicer place in Airlee Beach, than the beach itself...
The most intresting part was the evening when we went to a place called Reefo, where other people from other cruises went as well. It was a rather wild party.
The most intresting part was the evening when we went to a place called Reefo, where other people from other cruises went as well. It was a rather wild party.
Saturday - Monday, June 30 - July 2: Whitsundays
Whitsundays islands are a bunch of island of the coast from Airle Beach. They are quite lovely, and I'll say more about that in a sec.
We were 7 dudes, 9 gals, a skipper and a crewman on the boat called Tongarra. The weather throught was brilliant (a good compensation for Fraser Island) - absolutely no clouds in the sky. Additionally, I had been worried about being sea sick - but that fortunately was not a problem.
In general the whole experience was really nice, and the group of people was much better than Fraser Island. We also had a clown called Stevo...
A few words about the people. Among the girls there was one Israeli girl, whom Nir and I eventually dubbed "Gveret Timtemet" (for you non Hebrew speakers this means "Miss Stupid"). I believe that she is probably the most stupid person I've ever met! She was so dumb that she amused the hell out of us. One prime example of her stupidity was when she told people she "was afraid English might become her first language as she has been in Aussi for a few months". Well, normally this wouldn't be so dumb and funny, but in her case her English is so bad that it's comprable to Amir Peretz' English... There were a whole bunch of other examples, and when I have more time I might add some of those up here.
So here are some details:
Saturday: Got on the boat at 15:00. Most of the day was just sailing for several hours until we got to a place called Whitehaven Beach. Of course, it was dark so we couldn't see much until the next day. We spent the evening playing some drinking games (wasn't too exciting for me). Anyway, the English girl had a bit too much and threw up INSIDE the boat. It was quite spectacular...
Sunday: In the morning we went to Whitehaven beach which is probably the best beach I've ever seen with very fine white sand. After that we sailed to a small island where there we went on a small walk that ended up at a remarkably beautiful view point. Then we sailed a bit more and did some snorkeling, which was quite lovely, and would have been way bettter if I had brought my contact lenses...
Monday: We sailed to a resort island where we were only allowed on the beach. Apparently, they throw you in jail if you go deeper into the island. We also did some more snorkeling. Finally, we returned to Airle Beach at around 13:30.
We were 7 dudes, 9 gals, a skipper and a crewman on the boat called Tongarra. The weather throught was brilliant (a good compensation for Fraser Island) - absolutely no clouds in the sky. Additionally, I had been worried about being sea sick - but that fortunately was not a problem.
In general the whole experience was really nice, and the group of people was much better than Fraser Island. We also had a clown called Stevo...
A few words about the people. Among the girls there was one Israeli girl, whom Nir and I eventually dubbed "Gveret Timtemet" (for you non Hebrew speakers this means "Miss Stupid"). I believe that she is probably the most stupid person I've ever met! She was so dumb that she amused the hell out of us. One prime example of her stupidity was when she told people she "was afraid English might become her first language as she has been in Aussi for a few months". Well, normally this wouldn't be so dumb and funny, but in her case her English is so bad that it's comprable to Amir Peretz' English... There were a whole bunch of other examples, and when I have more time I might add some of those up here.
So here are some details:
Saturday: Got on the boat at 15:00. Most of the day was just sailing for several hours until we got to a place called Whitehaven Beach. Of course, it was dark so we couldn't see much until the next day. We spent the evening playing some drinking games (wasn't too exciting for me). Anyway, the English girl had a bit too much and threw up INSIDE the boat. It was quite spectacular...
Sunday: In the morning we went to Whitehaven beach which is probably the best beach I've ever seen with very fine white sand. After that we sailed to a small island where there we went on a small walk that ended up at a remarkably beautiful view point. Then we sailed a bit more and did some snorkeling, which was quite lovely, and would have been way bettter if I had brought my contact lenses...
Monday: We sailed to a resort island where we were only allowed on the beach. Apparently, they throw you in jail if you go deeper into the island. We also did some more snorkeling. Finally, we returned to Airle Beach at around 13:30.
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