Tuesday 11th September 2007

Ha ha, Nikki had trouble sleeping last night. Apparently some of the people from the drinking game had got a little frisky in the bunk beds outside our room and woke her up with their 'noise'. She said that she woke me up to tell me, but I just fell straight back to sleep. She wasn't impressed and when we were talking to the others on the boat about them, we referred to them as 'The Dirty Shaggers'.

When the skipper blasted out the music at 6.30am again this morning I was straight out of bed because I couldn't wait to get in the water. It was funny when we left the room because the lovers had woken up - and the alcohol had obviously warn off because the awkward atmosphere was really obvious.

After breakfast, I had my stinger suit on and was soon diving into the water - from the roof of the boat this time. Nikki didn't bother - she thought that seeing as the sun was only just rising (it was still only about 7am), then the water would be cold - but it wasn't! I loved it and spent about an hour swimming about - I even came face to face with a jellyfish, but left him well alone. In the end, one of the crew had to come out in the smaller boat and drag us back! When everyone was safely back on board, the crew raised the anchor and we started sailing back to Airlie Beach.

When we were safely back on dry land we walked back into town and checked into Magnums - our new hostel. We collected our bags from the luggage lock-up and found our room... a 10 bed dorm! We spent the afternoon looking around Airlie, and then came back about 5pm to get ready for a night out. Everyone from the Habibi was meeting in the Magnums bar for some food and drinks.

This evening we met everyone in the bar - and quite a few people turned up. For every 4 people, we were given a free jug of beer - so that was ok. I bought a pizza for my tea, and Nikki had a few slices - but she didn't eat much. Afterwards we went into the Magnum's nightclub, where they were having a wet t-shirt competition. 3 girls entered and one of the crew from the Habibi eventually won it! We stayed out for a while, but the music in the club was pants (no 80's cheese to dance to), so we left and came to bed.

Sailing was fun... When I grow up, I wanna be a pirate!