The Diary
Sean's birthday. I bet he wishes he could be here. More jolly japes on one of the islands including international frisbee and keepy uppies in the sea (see xmas day). No world, southern hemisphere, continental nor national records were broken. We arrived back on dry land at 4:05pm, a mere 5 minutes late.
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We then managed to squander the next 8 1/2 hours before the bus left. We talked to Heidi and Ian and used Heidi's room while she went out 'raging' with Stefanie. Ian was on the same bus as us and he joined us for a pizza before we left.
2012
Sean was turning 24. He's currently living in Adelaide with Louise and kids Hannah (13) and Joe (11) and is almost old enough to play O45 footy.
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The Diary
The usual courtesy bus to the hostel. This one's called Reef Oceania and has the biggest hostel pool so far. Can't go into the sea due to the box jellyfish so Oz and I had a quick look around town. He bought some socks and I bought some swimmers. We then booked onto a 3 day/2night cruise around the Whitsundays leaving at 10am the following morning. If Beth's bus is late we've got problems.
The afternoon was spent lazing by and in the pool and the evening was spent by the TV. Australia beat India by 7 runs in a close game, packed with incidents (as ITV would say), plenty of talking points there Elton. And I finally got to see some British soccer again. Liverpool still look crap. Hope the neanderthal British elements watching the TV are not on the boat with us. Same goes for the Yanks.
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Oz had probably worn out his other pair of socks.
Swimmers = trunks = speedos, depending where you come from
Beth was catching up with us after her side trip to Fraser Island and we must have known which bus she was booked on. There would have been no way for us to check on her progress and whether or not she made the bus, until it pulled up in Airlie Beach.
We picked the hostels that we stayed in out of Lonely Planet Australia. Most of the ones I've looked up seem to no longer exist or have been renamed. In 1992 nothing had websites so the "book" was what we had to rely on. Current hostels in Airlie Beach are below.
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"Liverpool still look crap" - this was the final season of the old div 1. The clubs had been plotting and scheming and a month later the Premier League was founded and the new League kicked off in August. Liverpool had been the dominant team for most of my football watching days - they'd won the league 11 times in the previous 17seasons but the cracks were showing now. It was strange to watch them struggle.
Australia beat India in the cricket - not much change there then as that's what's been happening all summer.
