Thursday, October 21, 2010

Oct 19 - Barbie and Bingo

Today we weren't sure what to do, since we had basically covered the island fully yesterday. So we headed over to town with the Irish lasses and split the rental of a mini topless car for the day. The car was tiny and looked like a Barbie car with pink wheels and no roof. Easily the coolest vehicle I have ever driven. First we went over to the rock wallabies to show the Irish the little fellas, but they were all sleeping or hiding or whatever. So we zipped over to the Forts walk (in like five minutes versus like 2 hours yesterday) and went until we saw a koala passed out in a tree. But it was hot and we were thirsty, so we returned to the car and drove up to the tip of the island called Horseshoe Bay and stopped for a drink and a popsicle (or ice lolly as the Irish would say). We also picked up a pack of three carrots and went over to the rock wallabies again and they were out! We spent a good hour feeding and petting the wallabies and other people came by to feed them pellets (our carrots were tastier I'd say) and after a while there was about ten hopping around, begging for food. After pictures, we hopped back in the car and drove to the furthest southwest end of the island (Picnic Bay, which we saw our first day in Magnetic) and walked out onto boulders on the point and snapped some photos. Before we returned the car, we stopped at the grocery store and I picked up a 4 pack of assorted cheeses and some rice crackers. We dropped the stuff off at the hostel, then drove back and dropped off the car, then walked back to the hostel. Then I had a cheese and cracker binge (haven't had any cheese since I got to Australia) and chugged a litre of milk (starting to get used to the taste of Aussie milk). We utilized the giant jenga set for some entertainment then pretty much the whole hostel played drinking Bingo for four rounds.

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