On to 42km of beach we trotted.
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| It wasn't this built up 20 years ago |
Cyclone Betsy was getting nearer and the wind was getting up.
"Let's swim I say" (Oz),
"It's just not my scene man" (groovy Gaz),
What he really meant to say was....."I can't stand having sand blown all over me on a dull over-cast day"
"Learn to swim young man, learn to swim"
Ok, no more public information films. For now.
So off I went into the centre of town. It didn't seem very big (sideways glance) but I managed to get a $4 all you can eat Chinese meal. Bargain at half the price - whatever that means. Back to the hos-tell, read more about Bill Wyman's knobbing round the world and the Stones in Surfer's Paradise and dozed off. The evening consisted of a cheap home-made meal (bought in a restaurant), stubbies of XXXX - as this is now Queensland - and a conversation about how sexist the legal system is. I think we agreed that "innocent until proven guilty" is not a sexist concept though.
Our Canadian room-mates came in very late and true to a drunken man/woman's form, despite trying hard to be quiet, made enough noise to wake the dead.
2012
This is why you don't lie on a beach when a cyclone is coming
OK more PIFs....
I think the legal/sexist argument had something to do with a court case about a rape that we read about or saw on TV. Beth was all for naming and shaming but Oz and I were arguing that he hadn't been found guilty yet.
Bill Wyman reference - I was reading Bill Wyman's Stone Alone which I'd borrowed from Gour and Marianne. A poor book basically just a list of all his on the road conquests and Jagger and Richards cast-offs. Damn, why didn't I learn the guitar. Don't bother reading it, go for the much more recent "Life" by Keith Richards.
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