A very full, overnight bus-ride later, and Ash and I are in Airlie Beach, the gateway to the WhitSundays islands. And we have officially arrived in the tropics. It's a balmy 75 degrees by 10am, we've had a coffee and are ready for a hard day of sunbathing. We drop off our bags a the hostel, put on our suits and head down to the Airlie Lagoon. We lay our town down on the mini pebbles (man-made lagoon = no sand....just small pebbles that are sand color.), and don't budge for the next 5 hours. Absolute magic. I finished a book, Ash wrote a book, and we both come away looking quite a bit more tan. We grocery shopped, picked up a few things at the chemist (pharmacy) and headed back to the hostel for some quality laundry time.
As our laundry was finally getting clean (we were smelling all kinds of rank after Fraser Island), we had a dinner of pineapple, paw paw, strawberries and potato chips. Delicious and nutritious....We concluded our day of rest with a bottle of wine down at the lagoon.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Oddities from Oz, 4th edition
17. Australians seem to appreciate unique and contemporary industrial and interior design, much more so than Americans. What does that mean? Even normal, cheap outdoor restaurant chairs have a unique shape or unusual color. Coffee shops are uniquely decorated. I've yet to see a cookie-cutter house model anywhere, even in the bush. There are unique lighting fixtures everywhere...
18. Most servers in restaurants in Syndey are learning to speak English. Lots of people from Asian countries come to Australia to live for months at a time to either learn or perfect their English. So what that means is you'll have a server who is really good at the English on the menu, but if you ask for anything that's not directly on the menu, both the server and you have to enter into a sort of sign language style of communication.
19. Finally finding a good radio station in the Tablelands. It actually ended up being the live music feed from the Splendour in the Grass Festival that our cook from the Whitsundays trip was attending in Byron Bay...
20. Driving on the other side of the road. Waaay cool. I did it in the Hunter Valley and around and around the Manly Wharf as I waited for Ash to pick up gelato for church dinner from Gelatissimo, where she used to work. I drove around and around and around and around....and around. And got really good at it. Except for turning left. I still kind of it the curb with the back wheels....
18. Most servers in restaurants in Syndey are learning to speak English. Lots of people from Asian countries come to Australia to live for months at a time to either learn or perfect their English. So what that means is you'll have a server who is really good at the English on the menu, but if you ask for anything that's not directly on the menu, both the server and you have to enter into a sort of sign language style of communication.
19. Finally finding a good radio station in the Tablelands. It actually ended up being the live music feed from the Splendour in the Grass Festival that our cook from the Whitsundays trip was attending in Byron Bay...
20. Driving on the other side of the road. Waaay cool. I did it in the Hunter Valley and around and around the Manly Wharf as I waited for Ash to pick up gelato for church dinner from Gelatissimo, where she used to work. I drove around and around and around and around....and around. And got really good at it. Except for turning left. I still kind of it the curb with the back wheels....
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