After our 10 hour
overnight journey we arrived in Agnus Waters, Town of 1770, the first
place Captain Cook fist set foot on Australia. We were in the middle
of nowhere again. We were picked up by an older guy who runs the
hostel we were staying at, he was a bit of a funny chap.
When he was checking us
in we soon found out that we didn't need a key for our room, not
something you want to be hearing when you have all your important
stuff on you, what made it worse was that the front part to the
hostel was wide open so anyone could easily walk in without anyone
batting an eyelid.
We went upstairs to
check out the room and put our stuff down, it was a 10 bed dorm but
we were the only ones in it so far. The room was pretty gross, it
hadn't been cleaned yet and there was dirty plates and rubbish about
the place, it was even more gross when we saw the pillows and duvets
were mouldy, yuk!
We needed to get out of
the place so we went for a walk down the road where the shops were,
we found a tour booking office and booked Scooteroo, our main reason
for visiting 1770.
It was booked for the
next day in the late afternoon, we were going to be in a bike gang!
We went back to the
hostel and chilled out and watched a film. After dinner we stayed up
talking to some other people staying at the hostel for a while before
heading back to our room to sleep.
But since the doors
didn't have locks on them, we had some drunken Aussie lads come into
the room in the middle of the middle, twice, turning the light on and
giggling and shouting for some girl, we told them to leave and they
didn't come back again, until the next night!
Anyway morning came and
we got up and had breakfast, we saw a surfing school futher up the
road the day before which was super cheap, so we thought we would
head over there and give it a go.
When we arrived there
there were loads of other people there too seeing how cheap it was,
we waited for a while and we were waiting for ages, it ended up being
to late and if we did the surfing we would miss our Scooteroo trip so
we had to sadly give it a miss.
We decided to go for a
walk to the beach ourselves and went for a half hour walk there, it
was hot!
We walked through a
little forest and eventually came out at the beach, we had a bit of a
paddle and took some photos before heading back. We just chilled out
at the hostel for a bit until we were picked up for Scooteroo!
We were picked up in a
little van and taken up the road to where the site was. We got to
wear fake tattoos and leather biker jackets, it was hilarious. We got
an introduction about using the bikes and stuff, I got a pink one
haha.
There were about 30 of
us in our gang and we rode off down the road. It was awesome having
the wind in your hair and just riding around these deserted roads, it
was a good adrenaline rush.
We were driving for
about an hour and a half and we reached a beach where we were going
to have a break and some chips to watch the sun start to set, it was
lovely.
Then we had to drive
back again, we even saw some huge grey kangaroos just in the fields
that we were driving past.
When finally reached
back to base and got to see some of the photos that were taken of us
when we were riding the bikes.
It was a really good
day and we were taken back to the hostel where we had dinner which
Matt made which was lovely, one of his specials – Fish with chopped
salad and fried slices of potato, yummy.
The next day we were
catching the bus to Hervey Bay where we would then go from to get to
Fraser Island, the biggest sand island in the world.
