Alice’s Gap Year Travels

On our first night in Brisbane we went to the bar beneath our hostel which was aptly called The ‘Down Under’ Bar where we had various anonomous cocktails, but for $3 who cares what they were to be honest!

The next day we did some shopping for essentials as Brisbane is the last ‘large’ stop on the coast for a while and then that night we went to Wagamamas! for dinner to celebrate Holly’s birthday which was the next day 🙂

March 1st, Holly’s 19th birthday… We got on the Oz bus up to Noosa a wealthy beach town with pretty rivers running through it, that night we had birthday cake and a couple of drinks with some friends in the hostel. Unfortunately Noosa is one of those places which works well when you can go to the beach everyday, kyack down the rivers and take walks in the national park but as we have been having ‘the worst rain in 100yrs’ Noosa was pretty naff really. However spending a lot of time in our hostel was jokes with these two leeds girls we met on the way from Melbourne to Sydney called Helen and Jen (they’re sisters). We went out a couple of nights too with some lads from next door and a guy in our room called Simon cooked us all an amazing Thai green curry one night which was awsome 🙂 Noosa also gave us our proper taste of BIG bugs as one day we had the boys in chasing a HUGE cricket around our room which was terrifying as it could jump miles (a guy called Kevin caught it in his hands then freaked out and let it go again which was hilarious) and then another time there was a GIANT cockroach by the bathroom which was absolutely vile.

The absolute highlight of Noosa however was getting to visit Steve Irwin’s AUSTRALIA ZOO! If all else fails i’m working there as a zoo keeper for sure 🙂 Although it rained like CRAZY all day we all invested in fetching Zoo ponchos and still had a great time – the rain meant it was really quiet and so for stuff like elephant feeding I literally got to stand there with a bucket of fruit and feed them as much as we wanted whereas normally you would get 2 bits of fruit then the next person would go. Held a koala! Held a python! Stroked a baby alligator and the kangaroos! We went to the show in the CROCASEUM where they feed the crocs etc. which was WICKED, and before the crocs come out they had a reptile show and a bird show where all these crazy parrots and stuff free-fly and we felt its wings on our cheeks as it passed 🙂

Of course there’s loads of Steve Irwin stuff everywhere – what a hero, we watched a documentary about his life on the Zoo bus back to our hostel and we all cried. What utter losers. Anyways aswell as investing in ponchos I am now the proud owner of a pack of CROCS RULE playing cards which everyone had a chuckle at when we get them out for a game.

With all the rain we hit the cinema in Noosa aswell to see the new ‘Alice in Wonderland, 3D’ which was fun if a little odd.

We got the bus to Rainbow Beach yesterday which was interesting as our driver had to divert due to flooding on the roads :/ funtimes. Off to Fraiser Island tomorrow which is so exciting – we camp for 2 nights and drive about in a big truck. We met our group today and they seem like a good bunch so will let you know in a couple days how it went!

speak soon XXXX 
 

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