On the Bus

Woke up at 5:20am on Tuesday morning and caught the 7:00am Greyhound from Brisbane to Rainbow Beach. Without going into too much detail, I'll let you know that a stifling, bumpy bus is not a fun place to be the disgustingly early morning after a fantasticly great goodbye party. Five hours and a long nap later, I arrived in Rainbow Beach at the Peterpans.
I checked in to Dingo's hostel (part of my Fraser Island package) and immediately did some computing. The debriefing for our Fraser trip was at 2:30. Basically all this included was a dingo warning, garbage and waste disposal rules, driving tips, and a whole lot of talking (all of which was repeated the next day). I met the six other people in my car and sat with them for a chat afterwards. Becky and Sam from England had just spent six months working on a dive boat in Cairns as chef and waitress; Michaele, Fiona, and Trisha (I'm butchering the spelling here) from Ireland were driving a rented camper van around Australia; Carlos from Spain had wanted to come with his wife but complications ended with him travelling on his own. We all got along right away and anticipated a fantastic trip. In my room were five other Irish travellers heading on the same Fraser trip.
The rest of the day consisted of me sleeping, eating dinner at the hostel, and going to bed at 8:00 with my alarm set for 6:20am.
Writing about the trip now!!
xoxo - Katrina