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Airlie Beach, Austria


so we're in the tropics!!!!! it is betting hotter all the time and when we arrived in airlie were most excited and looking forward to the whitsunday barrier reef yaught cruising that somebody somewhere in the red carpet tour had thought to book us lost ladies onto.

we arrived at the harbour and were introduced to our world racing champion 83ft fuck off boat and the crew of three. shannen who was our acdc loving skip, first mate junior who thinks that salad cream is mayonnaise and josh the general cabin boy and ship's cook who knows what mayonnais is.

we were an unlikely bunch of 27 (there was no way names were to remembered but we tried) and it soon became apparent that an 83ft yaugh does not sail itself and that slave labour still continues in this world in the form of continual winching of sails.and dropping of sails and gear changing and boom shifting. that's what we were for. so we boarded and with in minutes and every other minute i was on my bum or my face as i have no sense of balance or anything on a boat (this actually got better as goon was drunk) and lynds eyes to the sky "where's the sun for the sunbathing on the boat".

yet again we were pegged as troubkle from the start but although it is slightl dangerous to put me near something you can fall off and lynds near german girls with faces like slapped arses. we were brilliant company compared to happy and happier, the german couple who never smiled spoke or acknowledged the theme park like haven we were travelling around. (germans)


was fantastic though and contrary to popular belief- sailling is fucking cool. i now want a boat and lyndsey wants her breakfast back that she decorated the head sail with in horrific and comical dangeling-of-legs-over-the-bow in heavy chop stomach emptying scenario. think that's enough detail really.

sailing really is it's own world. the first evening we all becam e drunken sailors as there really is nothing else to do especially as our witsun's was quickly becoming wetsuns. the usual games came out and we spent the evening trying to say anything in Slovenia (is well hard) trying to understand the irish in slightly drunken slur and why the germans just wanted to be miserable.

as the trip was becoming over cast the evening moonlight was spectacular throught the clouds me and lynds sat at the bough listening to the animals on the island and imagining being peter pan.


each day we were awoken by six in ultra hot bunk beds had a quick cup of tea and went snorkelling around the various reefs. much of 'my god look it's that fish that's always on the posters ' and what's the grey thing on the bottom happened.

the fish were really curious and kept following us and ncircling in a very plotting something very cunning fachion. (can't spell)

dispite it not being really sunny boat life is great. and we had sailing on 'kat please tie your bag to the boat. please' extreme angles. and evenings discussing the benefits of having a wailing wall with the isrealis and why ice hockey is important to the social structure of canada. no really this drunken ramblings may be important to the future on mankind. that was adrian the irish's imput. and to be fair he can't keep a simple rythum to play 'names of types of' so "actual results may vary......."

the last night was mellower with slow passing of the time back on the goon till the early morning and lots of games of guess what i am now and 40-40 at four in the morning. (turns out Slovenians are bloody good at hiding. think rok is still on there somewhere)

it was an all round amazing experience and memorable for the views, baeutiful white beaches and an ever present of feeling of the sea is awesome, in the true sense of the word.


-now i have never been a big sea person in a very i'm-a-human-i-belong-on-land way, but being able to sail with a beautifully functioning machine like vessel and a group of truely hilarious nationalities for a couple of days and you can not help but want


permalink written by  lynds-n-kat on December 8, 2006 from Airlie Beach, Austria
from the travel blog: Lynds and Kats red-carpet-tour of Australia
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