Roadtrip Katherine to Cairns: ...Move along, nothing to see here.. (Nov 24 - Nov 26)

We left Kakadu the next day and started our long journey to Queensland via Katherine. We stopped just outside of Katherine for the night at a free camp site and met up with a couple from the US who we had met previously in the McDonalds in Katherine. So we had a nice evening sitting around the fire chatting about travelling and such. We had a pretty late start again the next day and made up for it by driving until about 11pm at which point we stopped at a random truck stop and made some delicious burritos. The truck stop was pretty cool, both in terms of awesomeness and temperature wise, it was the first time in OZ that I had to wear a sweater and a hat (because we were in the middle of the desert). The burritos were amazing, but to cook we had to shine the lights from the car on our stuff which attracted every bug in the area so we had to fight the bugs from our plates but it was worth it.

Another car pulled up after a while, it was a typical Australian tuned up litter box of a car, with blasting dub step pouring out of the windows. This pretty small dude jumps out of the car with a tiny dog and approaches us. Robert was fiddling with something at the back of the car and the dude offered to help. So he takes him back to his car and gets a head torch and explains that he is on his way to Darwin (Sidebar: Darwin is about a 20+ hr drive from where we are) from Sydney! After I heard this and gave the guy a look over, it was obvious that he was some sort of drug runner, I would guess meth or speed. He then told us that he was going to make it to Darwin the next day! Which is entirely possible considering there's nobody on these roads so you can drive as fast as you like. Anyway, this was just a funny character to meet in the middle of no where.

After dinner we chilled out and just looked at the stars for a while, it was a completely clear night so you could see stars all over the sky. Unfortunately there was a large truck idling in the truck stop (a truck at a truck stop...you don't say....) so it kind of ruined the atmosphere a bit, but still quite awesome. It was also fun to watch all the road trains go by, with all the lights and they are going so fast (at least 140 for some of them) it is really quite impressive to see a truck pulling 3-4 trailers booking it down the highway at night.

The next day we drove for around 11 hours (Sidebar: there is nothing but desert between Katherine and Townsville) and ended up in Townsville, which is the next biggest town south of Cairns. It said in the lonely planet that it has a vibrant night life, which we saw upon arrival. It is always funny arriving in a city after a few days on the road, the amount of people is always a shock. Unfortunately for us, it was the weekend and all the hostels were fully booked. So we decided not to party that night (..yes we were still going to go out after 11 hrs of driving..backpacker life), as we had no proper bed to sleep in. We searched for any free camp sites in the area and the best we could find was a Bunnings (like Home Depot) that allowed caravans and camper vans to stay over night. They did have a sign explicitly saying NO TENTS, so obviously I set my tent up right underneath the sign and we had a nice early night so we could escape before any security guards or patrons arrived. One lady from one of the caravans parked there gave me a look in the morning and said "it says no teeee-eeennnntttssss"....to which I replied..."Yes good morning to you too *big smile and wave*".

The drive up to Cairns was spectacular. Beautiful rainforest and tree covered mountains the whole drive. It was a ridiculous change from a few days prior when we were in the middle of the desert. This is one of the reasons I like OZ so much, such a varying landscape, but unlike New Zealand it is spread out over a much larger area, which is good and bad. When we arrived in Cairns we immediately booked for 5 days in a very nice and clean backpackers just to stretch out and relax for a while. We definitely chose the right one too, this place had free pancakes on Saturdays, free internet, and the beds were slightly bigger than a single so I could actually sleep on them properly. I don't think I can stress enough how amazing it was to sleep on such a heavenly bed, it's the little things sometimes.

Peace & Love

Kakadu It! (Nov 19 - Nov 22)

I left with Robert and the gang (Rob from Manchester, and Ingrid who was from another part of Holland) in the morning. We packed up the car with food and water and set off on our adventure. Our first stop was Litchfield National Park, I had already been there with Matt, but I was looking forward to showing my new crew all the cool things I already knew about Litchfield. Of course, by the time we arrived it was pouring with rain. It was still a great time though, not many people were at the nice spots because it was raining so that was ok. That first day we just went to the rockholes and stayed for an hour or two before heading to find a camping spot. It rained all night, so we ate dinner and had a few beers in the car sharing hilarious stories all night, it started off with trying to guess what we each did back home, and got more personal after that haha....pretttyyyyyy funny things were said, mostly from Ingrid LOL.

In the morning we went up to Florence falls, Rob and Robert did some cliff jumping, which was nothing compared to my previous jump off the top of the falls, but still nice..heh.. As soon as we went to go eat lunch the skies opened up and gave us a good lashing of rain to go with our instant noodles and bread..Mmm. At this point we were a bit fed up with the rain so we decided to head to Kakadu National Park. We arrived in Kakadu in the evening, and as it was obviously still raining we decided to stay in the backpackers at the entrance to the national park (Sidebar: Kakadu is ENORMOUS, it is actually the same size as Slovenia, and it has a town inside). As soon as we checked into the backpackers and started to cook, the rain stopped immediately and the skies cleared...smh. Even worse, the manager of the backpackers was a....hmm...*insert Australia's favourite word* but luckily we didn't have to deal with her too much.

There was a tour group there the same time as us, but they didn't look like they were having a great time for some reason. After we had our delicious dinner consisting of rice and vegetables, we sat outside drinking for a while, the tour group started playing a murder mystery game...which sounded pretty lame...But once they all went to bed the tour guide came and chilled with us for a while. He explained that the people in the tour group only bought about 4 beers between 8 people and then complained they didn't have enough beer. Anyway, the tour guide (Brett) turned out to be a really cool guy. He showed us some cool spots to go on the map and basically set up a private tour for us with some places that only tour groups went to. He also told us about a camp ground (with cabins and kitchen area etc) that is normally used by Adventure Tours that was not in use at the moment, so we had a potentially sweet place to camp. Thanks Brett!

We set off quite early to avoid the rain and get the most out of the day. Our first stop was Moline Falls, which was ok, nice and secluded spot, I also got a sweet spider pic while there. Next we went to Motorcar Falls, now THIS was impressive. Really high waterfall, 300ft I think, and nobody else around except a tour group of around 6 people. The tour operator was a bit suprised to see us because this waterfall isn't marked on the map, you just have to know it's there. There isn't even signs at the path, you need to walk for about an hour on a trail then you see one sign that says Motorcar Falls.. top secret falls. This was probably one of the better water falls I've seen in OZ, and believe me I have see A LOT. Of course as we finished our walk and began preparing lunch it started to rain (for some strange reason it always rained when we were eating, regardless of what time we ate), but luckily this time we had a private and free camp ground thanks to Adventure Tours and Brett. This became our home base while in Kakadu, normally to use the camp grounds (with your own tents) you need to pay $10 per night and $25 just to be in the park..Ha..

The one problem I had with Kakadu was the march flies, these devil spawns were relentless and came in all sizes and colours from every direction. The bites hurt AND are itchy... ridiculous. Anyway, we were safe in our cabin, because it was FULL of spiders, we cleared out as many as we could from around the beds we were sleeping in, and I still haven't had any spider babies climbing out of my ears or hair so I think it worked.

The next day we got going a bit late in the morning because we were enjoying our home base too much. It was such a relaxing place and it was sheltered. We eventually made it to a spot called Naurlangle where we saw some rock paintings that were around 1000 years old, there was also an amazing look out that gave a nice view of Dream Rock (just a big rock, with some sort of significance to the Aboriginal people in the area, pretty cool). The next destination was Ubirr, which was a rock art site and an amazing look out, might be the best look out I've been too in OZ. Absolutely stunning views all the way around, it made the march flies and any other inconveniences irrelevant and silly.

We waited at the top of Ubirr for the sunset, which filled the sky with bright orange and purple. But as the sun was going down, a lightning storm was brewing over the trees. This created an epic scene, sunset on one side and lightning storm on the other. As I was standing there not sure which side to watch I tried to imagine how on EARTH could I capture something like this in words and images alone. It was something that your really had to see to understand how awesome it was. After the sunset as we were driving back to home base we went straight through the lightning storm, which was pretty intense, but luckily it was dry at the site.

Before going to Kakadu a lot of travellers told me that Kakadu wasn't worth the effort unless you had a four wheel drive, and that there were too many flies and mosquitoes. But after seeing all that I did there, and having such a good experience I can't say I share their distaste for the place. Just get out there and enjoy it!

Peace & Love

The Eagle Has Landed....I Think.. (Nov 15 - Nov 18)

Matt's first night in Darwin he arranged a date with a girl he met at the bar. She was pretty cute, and spent some time travelling so she had some things to talk about. So in anticipation of this date Matt and I had a gay day, buying clothes and we randomly decided to get some piercings as well. He got 3 (nose, and 1 in each ear) and I got 2 (1 cartilage, and 1 in my right ear), it was quite a lovely day. After getting all dolled up in our new digs and freshly pierced we headed over to The Tap in the evening where Matt was meeting this girl. She invited a few of her girlfriends so I tagged along to play defence. It was a pretty fun evening, all three of them worked in Darwin with some company that was currently doing a study on the army, gathering measurements of soldiers. Her friends were kind of cool, they all kept telling me that I have high energy. I think it was because I talk with my hands a lot more now because of how much I talk to people that aren't completely fluent in english, so it makes it easier to explain things, but now I do it with everybody.

After a while her friends decided to leave, so I decided to bounce as well and leave the daters alone. I ended up going out after solo dolo, first time doing that, and it was GREAT. I was just going to grab a quiet drink and chill before going to bed. I met a French girl named Laura doing a trial behind the bar, I had to tell her my drink order4-5 times until I eventually just pointed at it, she didn't make it through the trial unfortunately. But when she was finished she came to sit with me and we chatted for a while. After a few minutes I noticed an American looking black dude (waves in his head, polo shirt, jeans, air force 1s). So I approached him and asked where he was from etc etc.. of course he was from the US, and after a few more questions I found out he was a Marine and he was here with several other Marines. Then I remembered that Obama was going to be in Darwin to make some sort of speech/do some presidential stuff. So they were here to suss the situation before his arrival (Sidebar: after he told me about this..took him a while he was trying to be very secretive...I realised I'd been noticing "American looking" dudes wondering around trying not to stand out for the past few days).

So this Marine dude brought the rest of his friends over, they were pretty cool, mostly because they were buying us drinks all night. Chilled with them for the rest of the night, I kept trying to get them to introduce me to Obama or at least get me in a position where I could holla at him or something...even just a head nod would have been nice. No dice though, they told me I'd have to become a Marine or an Australian soldier to even get close to him during this visit (Sidebar: they also told me they had my back if anything went down that night... which wasn't even really a possibility, but knowing that 6 Marines have your back kinda makes you want to start fights).

I also met Robert from Holland, we talked for a while and it ended up that he was heading to Cairns and had a seat available in his car. So I secured myself a ride to Cairns, which was a sweet bonus to the night. I'm not sure what day it was but Obama eventually arrived and I caught a glimpse of him in his car...I think...his motorcade was barrelling down the road with what seemed like far too much artillery.

The next day Matt and I went to Crocosauruscove, which was pretty awesome, we got to see huge salt water crocodiles and some cool reptiles as well. I would have rather seen them in the wild but this was good enough for the time being, plus it was raining pretty heavily. Matt was leaving for Bali in a few days, so on his last night we had a pretty epic time which almost made me miss him leaving. But in my half drunken stupor I managed to chase him down at the shuttle bus and say my goodbyes. He left me with a sleeping bag and a tent like a true G.

Thanks for letting me share some of WA and NT with you Matt it was a great adventure.

Peace & Love

Roadtrip Broome to Darwin: Hello NT (Nov 10 - Nov 13)

As we arrived in Katherine we wanted to go to Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk National Park) but we were a bit too late to get as far along in the gorge as we wanted so we decided to just go to the look out instead and save the kayaking for the next day. So we went up to the look out which was very beautiful, had a look and some pictures, sweat some more, and then went back to the camp site and jumped into the pool (you've probably noticed a reoccurring theme of pools now).

Around our camp site there were wallabies everywhere, we thought they were so cute and innocent looking, so we disregarded the signs and started to feed them. We got some wicked pictures out of it and it was pretty fun and cute. But then later on...somebody....*cough Berry cough*...forgot to close the trunk and the wallabies went from being cute fuzzy animals to food thieves. They stole our bread, some noodles and ruined a few other things, that being said we still fed them some watermelon after dinner, and at that time there were heaps more because it was night so we had to do it.

The next day we set off kayaking in Katherine Gorge..holy moly, that was super cool. I've never kayaked through a gorge before, and if you haven't done it either you should probably find your nearest gorge and jump in your kayak. It was pretty amazing having these huge sheets of rock either side of you and little caves and things along the sides. The only down side was there was very little shade, and even with all the sunscreen I put on I still got burned on my shoulders, but not too bad. Berry didn't want a single kayak because she said she couldn't make it all the way through and after doing it, we went through 4 gorges and a portage, I realised she was right. Matt and I ended up taking turns with her in the two person kayak and basically giving her a nice leisurely tour of the gorges. No worries though, it turned out to be a really awesome day, even with birds attacking Matt's bag for the bread and Berry leaving the trunk open again and birds attacking our food once we got back.

We left Katherine and started heading towards our next stop, Litchfield National Park. That night we stopped at a camp ground/caravan park/truck stop called Emerald Springs that had a bar and restaurant, so we had our first big meals in a few days and a few beers. In the morning we made a quick swim stop at Douglas hot springs, which was a river with hot springs in it. It was very jungle-y looking, so I was a bit nervous to swim in the water in case of crocs, but there were locals already in the water so I assumed it was all good. Later that day we arrived in Litchfield, which is the perfect size to do the whole thing in a day, and it isn't too rushed. We saw the biggest termite mounds I've ever seen, a few waterfalls, some deep rock hole pools and a huge swamp (check the wiki for all the real names of the places). I cut my leg climbing up/falling off Florence Falls, but I managed to get myself to the top of the falls and have a jump... unfortunately Matt didn't have his waterproof camera at this time which was super disappointing but I've got the scar on my leg as a badge of honour. Litchfield was really beautiful, I can't really say too much more about it, it's something you'd have to see, but the scenery was great and all the people travelling around it were very friendly and helpful.

On the way out of Litchfield was an unsealed road which messed up Matt's car quite a bit. As we got out the speedo stopped working and the transmission was making a loud clunking noise, we all decided it was well worth it though because we liked the national park so much. We arrived in Darwin later that evening, around 7pm, and checked in to our hostel where I met a dude from Markham working at the reception.

That night Matt convinced me to go out and it turned out to be a hilarious night. First off I found out a bar there serves MOOSE HEAD, so I was obviously very pleased about that.. however I was not impressed with the price, $8 a bottle..smh. We met up with Matt's friend Julius and he told me he'd buy me two moose heads of I danced with this skeezy older lady..so obviously I did, and she proceeded to grind all over me and then go back to her husband... what would you do for a moose head? Later on that night I met another older lady and she was telling me how she just got out of an abusive relationship and then proceeded to show me nude photos of herself along with pictures of her children/granchildren on her iPhone..wtf?! so weird....a nice welcome to Darwin I guess..

The next day I woke up still a bit drunk, so I headed over to Coles with Matt and we had a few "free sample" Kebabs... basically just get the food from the hot food counter and walk around and eat it, works quite well. After this we spent the rest of the day in our room recovering and surfing the interwebs, before going to meet up with Matt's cousin at his awesome apartment that over looks the wharf. (Sidebar: Matt's cousin is some sort of officer in the Australian army, he is in command of 6 armoured vehicles that look totally badass, as well as a team of around 20 privates. So the army pays for his AWESOME apartment, and his army friends all live in the same building... nice life). That night Matt's cousin brought us to The Wharf which is kind of like Marche, I guess, there are lots of little food shops and you order and they buzz you to pick up your food. I had Chilli Crocodile from an asian food place, and it was delicious. This place was awesome by the way, not sure if I portrayed that properly, but I really liked it. Cool atmosphere and delicious food.

Peace & Love

Roadtrip Broome to Darwin: Goodbye WA (Nov 7 - Nov 9)

We started our journey with no real plans of what we wanted to do or see. Matt had a few ideas but we were really just going to wing it and see what we could find. We set off at around 9am (I think...), grabbed some groceries for the next few days and hit the road. The first sign I got telling me this was going to be an awesome trip was we saw a huge bush fire on the side of the road while driving, it went on for about 1Km and was pretty far back as well. That was really cool, first time I've seen a bush fire, you can hear the excitement in my voice in the video I took. The second sign was it finally rained (it never rains in Broome and its hot all the time), so that was some sweet relief from the heat, and it made a nice rainbow that looked like it was coming straight out the road.

We rocked up to a camp site halfway between Halls Creek and Kununarra just as it was getting dark, pitched the tent (Matt slept in his car alone, for various reasons.. one of which is a hilarious/creepy story) and started cooking our dinner of burgers and salad. After dinner we started to hear these really deep grunts coming from the darkness, they sounded really close and a bit aggressive. Matt and I knew that there could be wild boar in the area so obviously we went to investigate with our flash lights at the ready. We hunted the noise down for a few minutes (sidebar: we found a drunk guy passed out in a chair outside his car, that was pretty funny) then we finally discovered the source of the noise. It was just a cow wandering around grunting and eating grass, not as exciting as a wild boar but it was a fun adventure for the first night. Throughout the hunt we kept discussing our escape routes, and how fast we thought we could kick off our flip flops and bolt back towards the car.

I don't think I've ever sweat as much as I did that night (even up until now), I thought it was bad at night... then the sun decided to come up and turn the tent into an oven. I had to retreat to a nearby bench at around 5am (much to the chagrin of Berry, as there is no way to get out of a tent without waking the other person up), an hour or two later the other two woke up and we got started on breakfast. We had beans on toast then left for Kununarra, which is the boarder town between Western Australia and Northern Territory.

As we were driving along we saw a few bats fly across the road and into a tree, we thought hmm that's cool, then we looked into the tree and it was inundated with bats.. along with the three other trees around it. So we had to screech (haha..get it..bats...screech) to a halt and whip out the cameras to take pictures and videos, it was so loud and there was a strange smell coming from the trees, which I assumed was the bat poo (just found out guano is only the name for poop from cave dwelling bats, seals and sea birds).

The scenery on the way to Kununarra was absolutely amazing, seeing the change in scenery between Geraldton and now this was crazy. It went from completely flat, dusty desert, and wild flowers to large hills, trees and greenery everywhere. This region is known as the Kimberley Region and it's know for the mountains and being very beautiful, and it sure was. (Sidebar: en route we were seeing a lot of, what looked to be, random pedestrian crossing signs. But then I realised they are probably Aboriginal tracks that crazy white people put a road through)

Our plan was to go to El Questro Gorge, but unfortunately it closed the week before we arrived. The National Park was still very beautiful to drive around in though so that was ok, and we also saw some dingo pups and probably the mother chowing on a dead cow which was cool. Oh wait... did I forget to mention Matt's air con was broken in his car...and it was getting hotter by the kilometre..oh..well I mentioned it now. It's also hot ALL the time when you get closer to the north and staying along the coast, so swimming is a must. However, the further north you go, the more dangerous things are in the water..like jellyfish and salt water crocs, so swimming areas are scarce. Just outside of Kununarra town centre was a swimming area so we jumped on that opportunity to cool off. There we found a cool tree sticking out the water with a rope swing, and some local kid was doing back flips off the top like a BAWSE, so that was pretty sweet.

Later we arrived at the Lake Argyle caravan park which had a wicked infinity pool, so it looked like the pool was running off into the lake. It was really an amazing view, so Matt and I decided to do flips off the edge of the pool to celebrate the awesomeness. I probably could have stayed there for a week or so, just meeting the people that came through and talking to the caravaners, very nice place. We spent most of our time there in the pool, we did go down to some look outs to see the lake from a different angel but it looked the best from the pool.

We left for Katherine (first "major town" LOL in Norther Territory) in the afternoon the next day. As we were leaving we saw a bush fire on the top of a mountain that we were told was caused by a lightning strike the previous night, pretty cool. The next cool thing we saw was two wedge tail eagles eating a freshly dead wallaby in the middle of the road. Now normally when you approach birds on the road they fly away, even if they are eating, they just fly away and come back and continue. But these two MASSIVE eagles didn't want to give up this meal, so as we approached them they just stood their ground and opened up their wings...and I'm no animal specialist but I'm pretty sure they were giving us the "What the eff are you looking at?!" face.. so we just slowed right down and had to drive around them as they continued their feast. I couldn't believe they were going to fight the car, badass. That night we just camped at a random camp spot, again it was blazing hot but I was getting more used to it by now.

On the NT in the morning! Thanks for the great time WA, it was a blast but I'm glad to see the back of you, gotta see the rest of this vast and beautiful land~

Peace & Love

Broome Broome~ (Nov 2 - Nov 6)

I arrived in Broome with no clue of where to go, where any hostels were, basically without any kind of useful information - and it was also around 7pm so all the places that could have given me some guidance were closed. So I hopped off the bus fully convinced I'd have to spend the night on the streets of Broome until I could find a visitors centre or something to find out where things are. Luckily the bus dropped us off not too far from a McDonalds, which means free internet. So I nonchalantly walked over like this was my plan all along, sat down and found the nearest hostel.

The next step was finding my way around, carrying my bags, at night with crazy Aboriginals wandering around everywhere. So I just headed off in what I thought was the right direction, then had to double back and start going in the real right direction, and I ended up just asking the drunkest guy where the hostel was - he checked all the backpacker boxes, long hair, rags around his ankles, unwashed, very drunk. Turns out he was actually one of the managers at the hostel I was going to stay in, so I walked and he stumbled all the way together - bonus.

On the way I saw the Swedish girls hanging at a bus stop drinking with Luke, I stopped and chatted for a bit then went to go check in. After that initial adventure I didn't really do much for the rest of my time there just went to Cable Beach a few times, supposedly one of the top 10 beaches in the world.. it was pretty nice, then just drinking and lounging by the pool. Broome is really humid so I stayed in the water most of the time and the hostel I stayed in (Kimberley Klub) was very nice, it was YHA so no surprises there, extremely clean and nice people.

I eventually found a ride to Darwin, just a posting in the hostel offering 2 seats to Darwin, with an English guy named Matt who was also taking a German girl named Berit or Berry. Matt had been in Broome for a few months (3 I think) working as a camel tour guide, he basically just walked with the people as they road the camels along the beach, probably the best job ever. So on his last night his friends had a beach party, there were other things going on as well I think a birthday and maybe some other people leaving as well. That was pretty fun, sitting out on Cable Beach watching the moon and just chilling under the stars. Made for a wonderful end to my time in Broome.

Coral Bay, yabba (Oct 28 - Nov 1)

Prior to leaving for Coral Bay I spoke with another guy I met from Geraldton, Dan, and he mentioned that he would be going up to Exmouth via Coral Bay. So I thought great, I'll just catch a ride with him from Coral Bay and go and see Exmouth. After a few days I realised that he wasn't coming, I didn't really put an effort forward to get in contact with him though, but it would have been cool if he just showed up and we had a roadtrip to Exmouth.

Luckily I quickly forgot about Dan after meeting the three Swedish girls who were staying in my room. When they introduced themselves I thought it sounded familiar, then I remember reading an ad on Gumtree (a website used for various things, ride shares, jobs, etc) about three Swedish girls looking for a ride to Broome and sure enough it was them. So that was a good conversation starter. Also - they obviously outlined right off the bat that they were THREE SWEDISH GIRLS looking for a ride north. I ended up hanging out with them quite a bit going to the beach, going out etc, pretty fun times. One night we ended up at a beach party and one guy was basically a beach party in himself. He had a sweet fire spinning set up and was doing that, I brought this dude that I met who runs the quad bikes and he was a much better fire spinner, we were also freestyling and just doing general gangster shit. I started conversing with him because he had a Fresh Prince shirt on so the whole night we were singing the Fresh Prince song and yelling PRAISE THE FRESH PRINCE - hilarious times.

I didn't just party it up and lounge on the beach while I was in CORAL Bay, I actually did some snorkelling and saw some really cool marine life. I went on a snorkelling tour for $50 and it was well worth it. We saw all kinds of different fish and coral (some 1000 year old coral) as well as turtles and sharks. Our guide brought us to a spot called a "shark cleaning station" this is where reef sharks go to get their teeth cleaned. They swim around this area with their mouths open and small fish swim inside and eat all the guts and stuff out of their teeth...then swim back out again! It was really funny to see, it actually kind of "normalized" sharks for me, showing me they have at least some control over their constant lust for blood. These were just small grey reef sharks anyway, they were pretty afraid of us. I also went to a shark nursery, where the mother shark leaves her babies to learn how to hunt and eat - it was just a small secluded bay, you weren't really meant to go in or else the mother shark would stop leaving her babies there. But I did a handstand in there regardless *Kanye shrug*.

The girls ended up finding a ride with a dude originally from NSW, I stumbled upon this one day as I came into the room. All I heard was...Oh ya I might be able to find you girls in...damn it, if I was in there and they weren't I could have secured that ride. He had a tiny car though and these girls had three huge suitcases, so I was still holding on to the idea that they just wouldn't fit and I'd be subbed in. But being blonde blue-eyed girls from Sweden kind of makes dudes make anything happen (sidebar: and he was trying to fit the suitcases in, I was hovering to see if it would work, he goes "Can you help me squeeze these bags over..." I turned and straight up said "No...why would I help you fit their bags in? I don't want this to work").

So anyway, they set off in the morning, one in the front and two squeezed in between the window and half the middle seat. I had a pretty nice night after they left, sometimes getting away from the people you've been hanging out with, even if only for a few days, feels very good. You don't want to get stuck hanging out with the same people all the time, or else you'd just stay home with your real friends. I ended up taking the bus to Broome the next day for $158AUS, which is cheaper than I heard it was going to be - I was told it would be closer to $250AUS so that was ok.

The bus ride took about 20 hours, but if you've been reading my blog you know I'm a professional at sleeping on long journeys. So I watched Rambo 1 and 2 (effin AWESOME movies - I didn't know they were so deep, I thought it was just killing like Rambo 4, but they take you on an emotional journey), after the movies I just slept. There isn't much scenery between Coral Bay and Broome, mostly just flat desert and shrubs to see. You can tell when a creek or a small river is coming up though because suddenly there will be trees and then you see the water then more trees..... and then back to desert. Midway through the bus drivers changed from two dudes to this lady - and for some reason she had a REALLY bad attitude (I cleaned that up from what I wrote in my journal), she was threatening to leave people behind if they got off the bus and yelling at people - wasn't cool at all.

Basically it was a pretty poor bus ride but I made it to Broome safely so it was alright.

Peace & Love