Obligatory East Coast Adventure: Day 4
Trip Start
May 10, 2006
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Trip End
May 09, 2008
Where I stayed
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Especially as neither of us can read maps.
We headed to Townsville via some pretty waterfalls, one of them being Wallaman Falls, the longest single drop waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere. Well you'd think they'd put it a bit bloody closer then wouldn't you instead of at the top of a big winding road up a mountain, they don't half like to make you work for your pretty things in Australia. Its the kind of distance where you expect someone to have put the kettle on and set up a camp bed for you for the night but not this time, we did the obligatory ooh ahh thing and drove back down.
And then it was onto our destination for the night. We rocked up just before 5pm and began the tedious task of trying to find somewhere to live. We pulled over and I called Globetrotters Backpackers to see if they had beds. They did and the following conversation ensued:
Bloke: Ok so when will you be here?
Me: Well we're in Townsville now so it's just a case of finding Palmer Street.
Bloke: Where are you now?
Me: On Walker Street. I'm... erm...
*looks around and sees this *
Me: I'm looking at a big water tank thing on a hill with a big green frog on it.
Pause.
Bloke: Have you taken something??
Ahh, first impressions. I ended up taking that photo to prove to the bloke that I wasn't clinically insane, at least not on a discernible level. You should have seen his face when he first saw me and I tried to explain that there was a big green frog as well as some Nemo fish and a blue butterfly. He asked me if there were any little green spacemen as well.
Funny cunt.
