Cooling my heels in hervey bay

Time is a slow trickle, waiting for the start of a four wheel drive fraser island adventure in Hervey Bay...

Spend most of it sitting and reading whatever cobbled together book exchange books are around and drinking cups of tea. The hostel that we have free nights at (or only $12 a night otherwise) is a mixture of converted caravans (campervans for those of us not of british colonial descent) and prefab house thingys with sliding glass doors... Actually one of the more comfortable places in terms of the rooms, it's about 7 blocks from the nearest anything and has all the visual and aesthetic appeal of a junkyard. So, life is exciting, but at least relaxing...

have to wait another day or so before there is an open slot on the self drive 4WD adventures, but i'm already excited - everyone i've talked to, including a German guy we met earlier in airlie beach, has said the driving is one of the best parts, skidding around corners and going along the sand of the beach... Also, the idea is that your time is directly reflective of the people you spend it with, so i'm hoping the rest of the people in our group will be fun as well...

Won some free beer last night by winning a game of "toss the dingo", but other than that, things are fairly laid back, which is to say boring, in Hervey Bay, and i'm about ready to get on with the adventure, or at least keep moving... Getting very excited about heading to Noosa and trying some real aussia surfing and beach bummery, but stagnating just a little bit where I am now...

Until next time,

Chris