So I haven't got as much time writing this as I want to because we are going on the "after party" from the cruise that I've been on since the 9th.
A lot has happened the last few days and I'll try to descibe it as awesome as humanly possible.
We went on the boat the morning of the 9th. The boat name is "Avatar", which sounds really cool doesn't it? Well I can tell you, the boat lived up to it's name and more to boot. Avatar is one mean looking ship. I am no sailor, nor am I very interested in tin cans floating on the sea, but this ship looked awesome. To all you boatlovers out there, I am so sorry, but I will now try to descibe how it looks, and it will not be a very pretty.
So Avatar has sort of three main areas. The middlepart looked like a narrow ship on its own, and then there were two smaller and even more narrower hulls on each side. These were connected to the ship in the front and the back, and in the middle of it all there were huge nets that you could easily fit everyone on the ship. The sleeping areas were located both in the main hull of the ship, and outside in hatches on the smaller hulls. The smaller hulls weren't big (especially when you are sharing it with a crazy dutch bastard) but I slept very well in the about two squaremeter room.
Fuck the ship let's go through the other stuff that we saw and experienced.
Just a couple of minutes outside of the Airlie port we saw two humpback whales. They weren't huge by whale-standards, but I wouldn't want to go swimming with them if you catch my drift. Everyone on the boat was amazed and I thought we were off to a pretty good start, before I heard the weatherforecast *dramatic pause and gulp*.
The weatherforecast for the next five days were windy with a chance of showers *sigh*. Let's just say I didn't realise I was supposed to have bought seasickness tablets until the next morning.
Back to the adventure! We saw seaturtles, whales, white-bellied sea eagles, amazing beaches, cool islands, and MASSIVE fish. I don't know if you guys knows this, but I hate big animals in the water, and I hate the ocean. I am convinced that if you can't see the bottom of the sea at any given moment, then there's a huge shark or other dangerous animal just waiting to kill me. In spite of all that, I still went on a boatride on the coast of Australia, and I snorkled. It was awesome.
The first time snorkeling I saw awesome multi-colored fish everywhere. They were almost to colorful to be true. I really reacted to the fact that they weren't even afraid of you, and there were schools of fish swimming about ten centimeters away from you. '
Second time snorkeling the snorkel instructor threw in some bread around us that drove the fish crazy. I remember them forming a sort of wall around you and circeling you. It was un-fricking-believable. And then the BIG fish came. They were HUGE. Now I mean it. HUGE. Like at least a meter in length. Two were black ones and they were pretty cool, then Elvis came.
The fish is called Elvis because it has a hump on it's forehead that resembles Elvis hair a bit. It also has huge lips and blue scales. The instructor, which was a pretty awesome guy named Eric, threw a piece of bread like ten centimeters from my face and I went "oh shit" as the big fish swam by me and ate it just in front of me. Woah.
Enough about big scary fish. We saw some awesome environments as well. We went to Whitehaven beach, which is ranked as the second most beautiful beach in the whole world. Let me tell you, even with a cloudy sky, the place was really awesome.
Of course there was a lot of drinking involved at night time, but what can you expect with a guy-girl-ratio of five guys and twenty girls *wink wink*.
As I wrote earlier in a post, there's a lot of stuff I keep forgetting to write down. I'll try to give you a full blown update tomorrow evening.
Now, friends and family, it is time for some goon and an afterparty with free (I'm not even joking) pizza.
See you guys!
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