- Roo poo
- Sun burn
- Hot tents
- Walking to the toilet block at 5am because my bladder is fucking hilarious
- Somehow running out of the masses of sunscreen, buying $18 bottle at general store. Only charged $8 because they love us fuck yeah.
- Glen Forest animal park are going to have to adopt me because that place is fucking awesome and I know the animals only loved me because they know people have food but I’ll accept that <3
- Fed an ostrich, then it bit my finger and took the food bag
- Ostriches are douchebags but pretty cool because they have attitude
- Fresh roo poo around the tent in the mornings
- Roo poo god damn /everywhere/.
OH and we went to an antique store yesterday, it was in the middle of nowhere outside of Coffin bay, it’s a super long dirt road to get there. They have a pig farm and it reaks but they were cute anyway, and the shop oh sweet Lucifer the shop. The guy has half his old record collection in there, and apparently he still has mint Beatles records that he still has to price sitting in his house. The guy put an Alice Cooper record on for us, and holy shit if you have never heard a record player put it on your to do list, it’s genuinely amazing. There’s so many depths to the music on the players and it just has this sound that’s incredible. There was a Bob Marley & The Wailers record that I might get him to play next time we go up there for pancakes… I want it but I don’t have a working record player and apparently the needles cost $50 each now. Butts. I bought some pretty costume jewelry and Cameron bought a Journey record and a Coca Cola mirror. It’s hilarious, I will have to get a picture of it.
EDIT: Oh, and while we were at long beach wading through the water, we saw a jellyfish. Then we legged it, as you do. and on another day we were doing part of the Oyster Trail hike, and we got down to the beach section, and we saw a stingray swimming along in like ankle deep water. We watched it for a minute, and then it nuzzled into a patch of seaweed, and we couldn’t see it anymore, how scary is that. o.O
In the library at Port Lincoln. Spent the day swimming in the ocean because it is amazingly warm at this beach! Half way down the jetty there’s this huge wire cage in the water, to make a safe swimming spot. It’s 2m deep so there’s a lot of jetty jumping. I was swimming in there for ages and when I put my snorkel on and looked under water I saw a school of small fish and freaked the fuck out. I have a phobia of sharks - it’s not logical at all. Anyone seen shark night? It’s awful and hilarious and Cameron was joking about if Port Lincoln sharks are from that movie and jump over the cage -.-
I am sunburnt :(
The caravan park at Coffin Bay doesn’t have internet access and no where else does so tumblr, I will see you whenever :P
So I was packing, but I stopped to burn some CDs for the 9 hour drive to Coffin Bay tomorrow. We’re taking my mother’s car as 6 cyl trumps my little 4 cyl, and it doesn’t have an aux hole. I’m sure there’s a more technical term for that, but for now it’s just ‘aux hole’ okay? So yeah we just have to rotate CDs the whole time. Now I can’t be bothered to finish packing and loading the car… boo. and I still need to assemble my bike - but I’m going to get Cameron to do that when he gets here because I tried and failed and have had enough of it.
Cameron’s bringing his laptop so I may or may not tumble while I’m there, but either way I have plenty in my queue. We plan to leave 5-6am tomorrow morning. Heh. I’ll be driving the morning shift since Cameron doesn’t function before midday, especially on weekends. See you in two weeks Adelaide!
It’s decided that Cameron and I are going to Coffin Bay. It’s on the coast and they have heaps of activities and rentals and whatnot. We want to go kayaking, but the problem is Cameron’s car has roofracks, but isn’t reliable for that distance. We could take my mum’s car with a trailer because it’s 6cyl, I guess. I don’t know how much trailer hire is. We looked into hiring a 4wd with roofracks and it’s $77 or $88 a freaking day. So ~$1100 for the duration of time we need it. No thanks. The cheapest holiday house there isn’t available, the next cheapest would cost us $1500 for 12 nights. I don’t feel it’s worth it. An ensuite cabin at the caravan park I think was also $125 a night which is the freaking same. What even?
But a powered site with communal toilets is only $30, so $360 and I could buy a super badass tent with the money leftover too. I was going to buy online as I found some cheap but the postage time worries me. We plan to go away on the 14th of 15th of Jan but postage times always take longer this time of year.
Everything is butts. Did you know Aldinga which is a shitload closer doesn’t have a caravan park with suitable tent areas? The fuck?
I want to read and play video games and draw and paint but I can’t pick any one of these things right now, because it feels it just wouldn’t be enough, if that makes sense. Maybe I should just sleep. Cameron and I have decided to wait ‘til winter to go to Tasmania, but I still have two weeks off at the end of january and I am going to use them. I was thinking maybe Aldinga or something? Kayaking? I really want to go kayaking. Or possibly to Melbourne. Sigh. WE CAN’T PICK A PLACE AND IT’S DRIVING ME BATTY. I want to go somewhere rural where we actually get away from technology and are actually forced to use our minds and just sit with ourselves.
Suggestions… again?
I have so many work hours coming up, I must get back into saving-like-a-fiend mode.
With my november hours and then christmas hours (hopefully… they are usually good so here’s hoping it’s super busy :P ) I’ll be able to go away with Cameron again sometime in Jan or Feb :D
I want to go to the Blue Mountains in NSW, it’s an hour and a bit out of Sydney and the accommodation there looks amaaazing. Spa suites fuck yes!
I kind of want to take the car so we’ll be able to go wherever, whenever sort of thing. It’ll be a long drive but to be honest, even though I get car sick, I don’t hate road trips.
I’ve also been told White Mountains National Park in Queensland is a great place, soooo I kind of want to go away for a few weeks… and not come back hahah.
I don’t have a passport yet so it’ll have to be in Australia. Any recommendations?
