The alarm went off way too early. Alison went to get ready in the bathroom, so I stayed with the stuff. Our ride was at 6 am, so we wanted to be out by 5:50 a. At 5:35 a, a man came over and said my name. He said he was here with the shuttle and is about to leave. So I stripped my bed and rushed. I didn't even get to go to the bathroom! I don't think we left anything, but who knows!
We went through many bumps in the road, which didn't help me at all! I was trying not to think of Niagara Falls or running water faucets...At one point, the driver stopped. There was a dead wallaby in the road. So he grabbed it by the tail and chucked it in the bush. Mental note not to touch anything he touched. We made drove all the way to Brisbane International Airport. What we didn't know...the International Airport is completely separate from the Domestic Airport. So...we got off at the wrong airport! We had to pay and take a shuttle to the Domestic Airport. We were very irritated, since we paid for the transportation already. I told Alison we needed to have a $5 souvenir from Australia, and this was it. We checked in and went through security. Would you believe it? I got checked for the explosive test again! I thought this was supposed to be a random test! It was getting closer and closer to our flight time, and we couldn't figure out why the gate didn't show our flight. Then we noticed the time. It was an hour earlier than it was supposed to be. We were so confused, but it was the correct time. So...we had changed time zones from the time we left Byron's Bay to the time we arrived in Brisbane. Even though we were going North, we went back an hour in time! Very confusing! So now we had an extra hour to figure out what to do.
When we flew, we flew over the Whitsundays Coast. It was really beautiful. When we arrived in Mackay, we took a taxi. It was the only option. The frustrating part was the metre said $17.90 and he told us it was $20.90. Not very trustworthy. Oh well. We arrived in our hostel, which was a rainforesty theme I guess. After checking in, we looked through town. It wasn't what we expected. It seemed like it was a part of the Whitsundays Coast, but it was this nothing town in the middle of nowhere. We looked at a map to try to find where we would take the bus. We couldn't find any of the streets we needed. We walked down a street to a petrol station and asked. The kid who worked there didn't know, so he gave us the yellow pages. We turned around and asked a couple. They told us the bus station was not in the location the map said. The map was old, apparently. So we walked in the direction the couple told us and found it. It was a miniature place, that didn't seem right for the central bus station. The subway in town was a lot bigger than this!
After this ordeal, we decided to walk to the beach. It was a ways out there and it was incredibly hot, but we wanted to go to the beach. So we trekked out there. We got there, but it wasn't a beach. It was a sand lot with mud puddles and signs everywhere saying "Beware of Crocodiles." Wonderful! We took our pictures and were on our way back.
This is the picture from Brisbane to Mackay of the Whitsundays Coast.
This is the picture from Brisbane to Mackay of the Whitsundays Coast.
These are the crocodile infested waters in Mackay. Does it look like a beach to you?
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