As expected I woke up today hungover like quite a few other people. It was about 7am and the sun already was far too strong for us to stay in the tents. I managed to open the zip with my eyes half shut and then stick my head out to go straight back to sleep on the sand. That didn’t last too long though as I soon felt myself getting buried by people.
After a while everyone was up and we started to cook some scrambled eggs for breakfast, once everything was packed away we started to walk down the beach until we got to Eli creek. Before that though Keith was hiding under the jeep in search of some shade, for a laugh one of the guys started the engine which scared the shit out of him and he cut his foot trying to get out, hilarious!
Anyway, Someone told us it was about a 30 min walk to the creek from where we were camping.. turns out that was just a huge lie! It was just over an hour and the worst thing about the walk was knowing we had to go all the way back as well. As the tide was just going out the sand was really hard to walk on as you just sink in it, and the fact last night was quite a heavy one it didn’t help either! If the tide wasn’t so high up we would have obviously driven!
When we finally got there, we walked to the top of the creek along some decking which was so hot everyone was jumping on to the shaded parts to get to the top. Basically once you get there you just jump in and float all the way down to the bottom. The water was Icy cold but nice and refreshing after melting in the heat.
After going down a few times and having a shower in it (that was our wash for today) we noticed there was a sign for disabled toilets, but to get there you had to go up like 100 steps! How does that work? Eventually after a couple of hours we made our way back to the jeeps where Dave drove us up the island until we got to some shop where we all bought some ice to sort out our now warm beer and get an ice lolly.
On the way up to the shop we had to go up a fairly steep slope though which got us stuck, so once again the 10 of us had to get out and push the jeep while the driver floored it! Once on our way back down we soon got to Indian point which is as far north on the island we are actually allowed to take the jeeps. We carried the cooler to the top of the hill where you get an awesome view of the turtles and stingray in the water below. At one point there was a shark as well, but I didn’t get to see that.
SO yea, we spent another few hours there relaxing on the edge of a cliff drop with a beer looking at all the cool sea life. We were the only group that bothered to drag the cooler up to the top, everyone else was jealous of us especially the Irish being the alcys that the are! After a while Dave found a secluded spot just around the back of the cliff edge which gave you an awesome view of the island so you could see around the corner as well. You need to see the pics to know what I’m on about!
Apart from me and Dave everyone else in our group was up for leaving. That sucked as I could have stayed there much longer but I suppose we didn’t really want to have to start cooking in the dark again. After taking a few more pics we all met up at the jeep and made our way to tonight’s campsite. Once there we pitched up the tents and noticed there were quite a few people having a kick about on the beach.
A while later we had a huge beach footy game that consisted of English lads vs rest of the world. We won 2-1 yeaa!! It soon got dark and we went back to the jeep where we got our stereo to blurt out the 3 lions song. While doing this the girls had finished making dinner, awesome!
After dinner we played ring of fire again or ‘kings’ as it’s more commonly known over here with a few Swedish and German girls. One of the rules that was made up is to refer to everyone as their mums name. One of the guys in our group (John) was called Sheila which everyone kept chanting, haha!
The music coming out of our jeep was by far the best which attracted a large group of people after a while which was cool. Later on in the evening we played a Japanese game called ‘Ping Pong Par’ which was quite simple but hard when drunk. Then after that we played another game called ‘1 smart fellow’ It is officially the hardest game I’ve ever played. You start off saying ‘there was 1 smart fellow, he felt smart’ and then it goes round in a circle until someone messes up. So the 2nd person says ‘there were 2 smart fellows, they felt smart.’ Obviously reading it back isn’t so difficult but try saying it after you’ve had many drinks!
After all the games had died down I remember Keith and I started chasing a dingo down the beach. Then waking up on the beach sometime later on my own with no one else around so I went to bed!
Tags: december, World Tour, World trip
