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January 6, 2006
Fraser Island again....
So I quit my job driving the courtesy bus after about 9 days. This may or may not have coincided with Jesse and Joel arriving in Hervey Bay and/or having my afternoon shifts changed to New Year's day morning at 7am.
So I booked in Jesse and Joel for a trip to Fraser Island for the second time in as many weeks. Well worth it. Ended up in a group with one Israeli, a really bad driver who hung out mostly with himself, and me JE and Joel and a family of 5 Canadians. This was Bob, prototypical Cdn dad always with a beer in his hands, Wendy his wife, his kids Amanda and Dallas and Amanda's bf Alex. Dallas was amusing being the 30 year old who most resembled a 3 year old at play. We saw a lot of the same sights as my first trip but without the pressure of taking pictures. Most of my pics are from New Year's Eve where all three trucks camped together along with 4 kiwis and one truck from Escape. It was a grand ole party that even included several games of twister. Ended up waking up at 7am cause it was too hot to sleep. The tides were up so there was nothing to do but hang out til noon. I went and hung out with the kiwis (they had a sweet ass sun tent) and it turned out I still had beers in my cooler so I finished those off in the morning. I'm pretty sure hangovers are something that either only occurs when you're working or when you're on the mainland cause they didn't exist on Fraser.
At some point during the weekend a joke started about how Joel was just going to roam free and stay on the island like the dingos. This of course lead to more jokes and the eventual "don't feed the Joel" comment. I don't expect anyone else to even find it half as hilarious as we did, but I think the pictures will at least attest to how funny it could be if you were actually privvy to the inside joke.
The second night was another good party with the three trucks from our hostel. The other Canadians stepped up their game and pulled out a 40 (1.14L) of Crown Royal which was then worshipped all night. We played a good game of Roxanne; a game where you've got two teams and one stands and drinks when the Police sing Roxanne, and the other team stands and drinks when they sing Red Light. It doesn't sound like much til you catch the chorus at the end that lasts for a few minutes before it fades away.
I still have tons of pictures to upload but it takes awhile so hang in there and eventually they should be up.
Cheers
Posted by Dr.Unk at January 6, 2006 3:08 AM
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Good to hear you hooked up with JE and Joel - I hope you guys have fun.
Posted by: Paul at January 6, 2006 1:32 PM
Is it really a good idea to double up on visitng places? I mean, I'm no geographist, but Austrailia is a pretty big island.
Posted by: stashuk at January 7, 2006 4:02 PM
Don't forget to hit on the dishy Aussie blonde chick who runs the front desk at Beaches. Ta-dow!
Posted by: Moose at January 10, 2006 6:55 PM
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