A little update from Halls Lodge

Hi guys and guuurls!

I'm sitting in Halls Lodge on a Wifi a roomate gave me. She was heading out for a run and so she gave me her Wifi, crazy (but nice) canadians.

So, we are still in Noosa which is north of the city of Brisbane where we arrived. We are headed north to Cairns for work, but on the way we are stopping at some "have to see" locations. One of them was the Gagaju bushcamp, since you could go kajaking in and around Everglade which is a national park. We were hoping to see some cool animals, and we did, mostly birds though.

 

So the first time kajaking was actually kinda awesome. Me, Henrik and Ben went in the same kajak and it turned out Ben was a really cool guy. We talked a bunch as we were paddeling up and down the river.

The river ended up, in both directions, to seperate lakes. They were really shallow, like knee-deep, but also pretty large. We paddled to the beach of the lake, walked to the second oldest pub in Australia, then returned again in the afternoon. I was feeling a bit skittish about the whole kajak trip, since Andy, one of the guys that worked there and picked us up, told us there were bullsharks in the water. For you guys at home, bullsharks are kinda big, and very aggressive. They are also known to charge and headbutt their prey (sometimes being kajaks) and then killing them. Crikey!

I was at the back of the kajak since the strongest one in the kajak should be there (hello ladies ;p). That ment that I was in a way very close to the sides of the kajak and I had a feeling I was exposed sitting there, which made my fear of bullsharks (although not likely) creep up on me at times.

The second day Henrik was feeling really tired and he decided to stay in the camp. Me and Ben went by ourselves with the nine other kajaking people. It turned out really nice anyway.

We left the camp kind of early and was back at Halls Lodge in Noosa at about 10 or 11. We met a few of the people from camp here as well. One of those people was Frans from germany who is a awesome guy. He feels very well-traveled and experienced, although he's only 19 years old. I have written a page on my phone called "Frans tips" where we write everything he says down. At night we met up with a few other people from camp and went out drinking in Noosa.

After the nights in the cold and sleeping in tents with packed dirt floors, we slept really well last night and ended up sleeping until 11, which was really nice.

We met a bunch of awesome people, saw some cool looking birds (Oh, and we saw a wallabie and some big fruit bats as well!). Now we are heading further up north and our next stop is Harvey Bay (or rainbow beach if we decide to stop there) where we'll be leaving for Fraser islands and a three day trip there. After that it's off to the boat called Avatar for drinking and partying.

On a completely different note me and Henrik are discussing if Australia is to expensive. We have begun talking about Asia instead, since we've heard from almost everyone that it's so much better (read cheaper alcohol, cheaper living, cheaper food...) than Australia for backpacking. My, myself, feel that I'm not done with Australia though. I want to find work and maybe stay here some more. Maybe me and Henrik are headed for different directions. Then again, a cool one month holiday with a great friend, doesn't sound bad at all.

See you guys around!