Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach is one of my favourite places in the world.
So I thought it would suit as my gift to Michael for his birthday. Michael, Peter and I left early on Saturday morning to make the trek towards Rainbow Beach. Its about a 3 hour drive from Brisbane. I did the whole drive because after driving up from Melbourne, it felt like nothing.


Rainbow Beach is named after its beautiful coloured sands that cake the beaches and cliffs. From black, red, orange, yellow, white, beige, green.. it has it all. It is so beautiful. We went up to Carlo Sand Blow which is a 15 hectare area of sand dunes. Each step you took looked like a McFlurry as the colours swirled together. I was so happy.




Unfortunately we couldn't go paragliding due to the high wind conditions. Even sunbathing on the beach was unpleasant as sand entered every cavity every moment haha. After cave hunting and sand climbing, we retreated and went to the lifesaver area to cop less wind. It still ended up being pretty windy and the sand was annoying so we left. We had lunch.




Afterwards, we headed to Tin Can Bay which had nothing. I totally don't remember it having nothing. It is a fisherman's haven and it'd be a great place if you owned a boat or even a dinghy. The current in the inlet was just beautiful and calm for even the pettiest of boats.




We booked a trailer so that was a fun bogan experience for Michael. Welcome to Queensland, Mikey! We started our drink on and then headed to a cafe for dinner. Holy moly, we so did not expect this restaurant (out of 2 in the whole town) to be so good! The oysters were so fresh, the scallops were delicious sprinkled with flavours similar to potato gratin and my main dish lamb rump with mint yoghurt and salad with feta was gorgeous! We were amazed at how much value we got out of our dollars. If we paid the same amount in Brisbane, we would so not walk out with as much content in our bellies.




The next day we woke up early to catch the wild dolphins coming into the marina to say hello and get a morning feed. It was very cool to see wild dolphins as they are not the picturesque smooth perfection that we are usually used to. These dolphins had war scars from other dolphins and even huge shark bites. They were scratched up and rugged.




After breakfast, it was time to head back down to Brisbane. I drove to Ginger Factory for our stop over where we relished in fresh ginger beer and I bought honey from Superbee Honeyworld for my mum and I to indulge back at home (we love the iron bark flavour).



Our next stop was at Underwater World in Mooloolaba. It was much more busier than Cooloola Shire (Fraser Island, Rainbow Beach, Tin Can Bay). They were renovating so we were kind of disappointed. Though it was very cool to see otters trained to do little party tricks for the audience. I didn't even think you could train them! They're so cute!

Can you see two?



Afterwards, we thought why not enjoy the less windy conditions! We went for a swim at the beach and the two boys decided to perve on the many pretty girls that lingered about. Haha! We had lunch and headed on home. It was a great weekend, I was very happy to visit my favourite childhood places.




Now its time to knuckle down and start this essay we got given in week 1 to finish by Tuesday! Wow!

Freshman

I know I've been neglecting my blog.
Its been a busy week... Mike's cousins came up from Melbourne so we took them around to Surfers Paradise, Wet'n'Wild on one day, Dreamworld on the other...

Then helping Mike go apartment hunting, and then settling into one. Then getting ready for school....

I had my first day at university today. I have a very lame 5 hour break during the day so I went to the gym. CLASSES WERE POINTLESS TODAY.
Lecturers know oh so well how to talk gibberish in circles.. and reiterate common sense bull crap too... so I was very bored very quickly.

Also forgot how girls love fake tan in Queensland. I cannot stand the orange hands and the leprosy-like spread on the skin when its wearing off... UGH. I also don't really enjoy hair extensions that are obvious and ratty.. JUST SAYING.

On another note, I'm on provisional learning this semester and am only allowed 3 subjects instead of the usual 4 subject load. I even requested an interview to reconsider this..

This is how the program advisor phrased it;

"Even though you're physically well now, we never know if you will get sick again throughout the semester and so its for the university's benefit and good."

All I kept thinking was, "Wow they did not assess me individually and all they want is money and reputation," AND "they really didn't phrase that well."

 

You can't judge what I can handle intellectually by what I've unfortunately suffered physically. Oh well, I'll just go get HD's and smoosh it into their faces. It did make me very upset and I cried for the first time in a long while. I just never thought about it when I was suffering through the sickness that I'd get slowed down at school for it. Unfair. I am over it but I just wanted to write it down.

On another note, the reason why I wrote a blog is because I've got memory that is slowly getting worse and worse. Some of my friends actually want me to go see a doctor for it. Hahaha I just think its funny how little I remember of memories.

I'm very tired today. 1 hour driving to commute each way is a little drainer. I put up photos from my last gig in Melbourne at Mr Wow's Emporium today.. here ya go!

MV

I've been so busy in my last week in Melbourne. I did some filming on Monday for an MV, it'll be a while before I can show that off but I can show you the Behind the Scenes photos!

I've just been catching up with friends and blah blah.
I'm so confused with what I want. I am excited for university though - ready to just go get my degree.

Mike and I drove up from Melbourne > Brisbane 18 hours straight inland. If you go through Sydney it takes way longer. I ended up doing an 8 hour straight shift, I was on such a roll hahaha I still can't believe I did that without any Redbull or coffee. Then I rested.. I think it was the headache that kept me awake and powered on my driving safely. But I couldn't hack it anymore so I slept for 2 hours. I couldn't do another huge shift again, I barely survived the last 2 hours before we got to Brisbane because the sun was so bright in my eyes.

We saw over 100 dead kangaroos. We saw many wallabies, kangaroos and foxes about to cross the road. We even had a very close call with a Golden Retriever lost on the road. I hope that poor thing is okay, I was so sad to see it lost from home but it was too dangerous for me to get out and help the little bugger because truckies were coming in at anytime and it was pitch dark. I saw a truck flip over too in Victoria!


We finally got to Brisbane at 8am. Had Maccas then crashed out. I've been so tired, the next day which was yesterday.. we went to orientation day at university to enrol, admit our documents, sign up to classes and get our Student ID. Afterwards, we went apartment hunting for Mike.