Schoolies and Toolies

We got off the bus this morning after yet another overnight bus... It was the first time it has been late for us. Still, only a 40 minutes late. We slept fairly well despite the bus picking up a driver on the way home who shouted his arse off speaking to the other driver even though the whole bus was trying to sleep.

So we're in Airlie. It's another functional kind of town. Pretty much a hub for Whitsunday sailing trips. There are also loads of "schoolies" about. These are 16 year olds who have just done their exams and looking to go wild. However, they have to where identity tags to say who they are, who they are with and there age! So no booze for them. I'm sure they find a way round it. Accompanying the schoolies are "toolies" who are 21+ men looking to take advantage of drunk young girls... So tonight might be interesting (especially for the police!). No different in UK I suppose...

We got to the YHA which is quite nice actually. Basic hostel with all you need, no frills other than a little pool! So we and ame took a dip and then went to check in for tomorrow's trip. So looking forward to being waited on for 3 days. We won't check emails or post until Tuesday probably so to Anoymous who posted about us being eaten by sharks (re: Surfin' Byron Bay), don't worry if we don't post, we're still alive! (As an aside, if you do post anomymously then put you're name at the end of it so it's easy for us to know who it is. Then we can know where the love is coming from).

Tonight we're having a couple of beers with V (one of the Canadians from our Fraser trip) in the hostel. Then we might go out and see what these Schoolies are up to. We set sail at 09:30 tomorrow: Captain Rob and Captain Coad.