Monday 24th September 2007

We slept until quite late this morning, but still woke up feeling really tired. The double bed we slept in last night was possibly the squeakiest bed in the history of the world - and every time one of us rolled over, or took a deeper breath than normal, then it would start making a right racket! Once we were finally up, we had some breakfast in the TV room with an Irish girl and she was telling us how she'd driven to Cairns from Darwin, and how wonderful it was. Afterwards we went into town.

Our first stop was the Apple shop. Because we were going to Cape Tribulation tomorrow, we thought it would be a good idea to leave the laptop with them. It should be safer there - and hopefully they can fix the bluetooth this time! We were in the shop for ages and when we left, it was about time for lunch so we came back to the hostel and Nikki made us a picnic, which we ate sat down by the lagoon.

After chilling out, we stopped in Travel Bugs to use the internet. Whilst we were there, I managed to find a Campervan that needed relocating from Cairns to Darwin. I quickly rang the company and booked it for the 7th October. The cheapest we can find flights (direct) is for $365 each - but this is gonna cost us only $5 per day... and they give us the first $250 towards fuel. They've also given us 6 DAYS to deliver the van... it is nearly 3000km after all!!

Later we went to the supermarket to buy a chiller bag for tomorrows trip and also bought a HUGE family Apple cake, which we sat and ate whilst having a coffee in a café. The cake was so big - we could only manage half of it.

Tonight, when we got back to the hostel, we stopped in the bar for a couple of hours and had a few drinks. We didn't stay out too late because we've got an early start in the morning - plus we were being hassled by some drunk fisherman. They were friendly enough, but way to drunk for us to understand - whatever they were saying didn't make any sense.

$5 Campervan - and the chance to see the Northern Outback... Rock On!