No more Casio

Hello there,

As promised i've uploaded all the photos i have, well all the decent ones anyway, and the blog is now fully up to date.

Since my last post we were heading to Airlie Beach for a cruise round the Whitsundays Islands, Airlie was a pretty mental town, just party central focused on 1 street, every night there was somethinng going on, anyway the Whitsundays were pretty much amazing, getting to dive and snorkel over the coral seeing loads of amazing fish and we actually saw a few stingrays and a wee shark bout a 1m long when we were at Whitehaven beach, which is in the top 5 most beuatiful beaches in the world, or so they say. Really good trip, juat an amazing amount of things to see.

After Airlie we headed up in convoy with team ireland to Magnetic Island, the convoy consisted of Casio, Jo's van and Bugsy, Team irelands van towing a trailer, so we were looking good.

We spent a couple of days on Magnetic which turned out to be more than enough and ended up nailing a couple rounds of golf, so a fter our lazy magnetic trip we headed for a place called Mission beach but because it was raining (surprise surprise) we decided just to carry on for cairns, which is where we have been for just over a week. Done a fair bit here, jumped out of a plane at 14,000ft and went whitewater rafting granted there wasn't much whitewater but there was a raft! Still gonna do a croc tour and get back out on the reef.

Anyway got until next tuesday here with team ireland when myself & dave head down to brisbane to meet his folks and team ireland disperse to Asia, Melbourne & Sydney, the end of an era? i don't think so plans are already in motion for many a reunion!!

Just a wee update I'll put more on later on,

Cheers

Take care

Col Boy

Mark found this on an in flight magazine, the one and only Tim Tim!! 

Mark was the brunt of the jokes after just returning from Sydney (thats 3000k away & $500) to meet some of his mates aka a bird!! 

Dave & Lee getting all spruced up for a night out, mmmm is that scent of colgate your wearing! 

Filling the fridge after our $130 meat buying spree at the wholesalers that included 10 t-bone steaks and a leg of lamb, we eat good! 

This is the new Scottish/Irish flag, i like it, whats not to like, beautiful 

Just chillin in our new pad for the last 2 weeks in Cairns 

Casio getting her 2nd ever wash in preparation for the sale, gleaming just gleaming, looking better than a ferrari! 

Casio being passed on to some other backpackers, will miss you alot Casio, you gave us grief but so much more joy 

Playing golf on magnetic there wasn't much else to do 

One of our many games of poker 

Arriving at Magnetic 

Leaving the mainland behind 

On the way over to Magnetic Island 

Apparantely this is based on a tooth that they found they reckon the shark would be about 70+ft long the mouth's big enough to fit me & i'm not small 

Dave taking Vic Hislop's museum very seriously 

Is Henrietta in Airlie Beach? 

My friend Dave was possesed by some evil red eyed monster 

After a hard night all Captain Conor wants to do is brush his teeth and go to bed 

El Capitan getting some love, is that wrong? 

the guy with the beezer of a hat on is Julian Beard that we met in Bundaberg, top lad 

Team ireland and team scotland & a captains armband all the makings of a good night 

Just the sun going down behind an island 

On a boat in the tropics, i dunno its no inverness 

Sunsets are nice 

Just to prove i was actually there, another great self picture!