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Oh- this is sooooooooo great but i am all so tired, this is what happend next

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

On the third day we got up pretty early and we went to the air port to catch a flight to Harvey Bay, we went to take 4×4 drive and camping gear. From there we went on a yacht that took us to Frazer Island, on the way we saw wheals and chilled out. We have arrived to the island and drove on our awaiting 4×4 to a camping area, Shane the tour director and other crew members have arranged a big and good dinner, we were sitting there under rain forest threes, I just realized that there is sand everywhere… maybe it is because we are on the biggest sand island in the world. Tents were set and we went to sleep we woke up by the sound of big water drops that fell of the tree leaves and weird noises from local birds that I am not familiar with. The smell of the big breakfast convinced me to come out of the tent, after breakfast we quickly packed up the camp and went in the cars navigating to a creek where The Real Race team was waiting for us for the next challenge, a biathlon running inland to where the creek starts and swim in it towards the beach, such a beautiful creek, it was so cool but hard and it was hard to catch our breath after it. After that we drove in a convoy to a shipwreck to take some photos.
Back into the cars to drive inland, we got to a picnic area filled with colorful birds and beautiful nature, we had picnic lunch and went to a lake near by, it is AMAZING, it is the most beautiful lake in the world!!!! O.K it is one of the top ten in the world and the most beautiful I ever seen in my entire life. It was a pity that we couldn’t stay there forever, the whitest and purest sand I ever seen and the water so clear and blue. Well we had to head back to the ferry to get of the island, dolphins escorted the ferry all the way it was unreal.
Got back to the mainland, we went straight to return the cars and went on a bus to a three hours trip to the sunshine coast, on the way we stopped for food and interviews with the camera crew. I was so tired, we got to the resort and the only thing I wanted to do was to get into bed and sleep.
A wake up call really early in the morning with a lead note –we are going surfing.
I hardly recovered from the day before and here I am in a wet suit. We got a group lesson from few really nice instructors that made the whole experience much easier for a novice like me. The challenge- stay as long as you can on the board and the wining team will be the one that stayed the longest time on the board or in other words- last man standing.
The instructors helped us and they pushed us with the waves, I managed to stand up but not long enough, the surfing board was too big for me to stabilize I think. Again, Yuval and me almost last. We got back to the hotel, I had a hot bath in the spa and we all had huge breakfast. A bus waited for us to take us to the air port- we are going to fly again, I have no clue where.
Alright, I have found out at the air port check in that our flight number is for a flight that will take us to Melbourne. I really don’t know what to expect now since the crew asked us to nominate which member of the team is the smart one and which one is not scarred easily and it cannot be the same person for both, out of 1-10 on my fear scale at the moment my fear level of what will come next is around 7. Between me and Yuval I am obviously not the smartest one, so although I am a big chicken our chances to win something will increase if Yuval will use his brain and not me, and while being a person that is scarred easily I’ll still be ready to attempt any challenge that will come my way.
Well, I need to catch up on some sleep so being on a flight now I am going to do so, I need to be alert when we land in Melbourne.