Posted by
Anny Chih on October 12, 2009 at 3:05 am.
The last stop on my Wicked Road Trip through Queensland was Surfers Paradise. I hadn’t planned on doing much there but lounge and had no interest in surfing. But, since I was in Surfers Paradise I did feel obligated to try it. I had an extra day to kill anyways, so I booked a two-hour lesson. It was awesome! 
Go Ride a Wave wasn’t answering their phone that morning, so I booked the lesson with Cheyne Horan School of Surf. They went through everything step-by-step but the style of teaching was primarily watch-and-copy.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 7, 2009 at 7:40 am.
I walked around the sand for a while and couldn’t figure out why the place was called Rainbow Beach. I was expecting multicoloured sand on the beach and all I saw was a big sea of tan and a section of white. I saw some footsteps in the tan sand with some white sand mixed in there, but I thought it was from people walking across both beaches and dragging the colours across. When I looked closer though, I realized that the white sand hadn’t been dragged across, it was underneath the tan sand! I looked around some more and found that there was dark orange sand underneath some parts too. There are actually several different colours including grey, blue, green, red, orange, white, yellow and tan. It really is a rainbow coloured beach!
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 6, 2009 at 3:14 pm.
That’s right folks! Today I put myself down in the books as an event participant for the largest number of people jumping on a trampoline at the same time for over five minutes. *big smile*
The event was put on by Pure Health Clubs and was held at the end of Queen Street Mall (across from the Treasury Casino) to benefit the Asthma Foundation of Queensland.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 6, 2009 at 1:01 am.
Bundaberg and its hostels aren’t as bad as I had imagined, but they wouldn’t get anything higher than a one and half star accommodation rating.
I had stopped at the Bundaberg information desk to ask for directions to Cellblock Backpackers – the most popular backpacker work hostel in Bundaberg. I also asked the woman at the desk to mark a couple of other backpacker hostels I should check out on the map if I was looking for work. She marked where Bus Stop Hostel and Dingo Blue Backpackers were. I had never heard of Dingo Blue Backpackers before now.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm.
With today’s technology, we’re fortunate enough to be able to call each other from half way around the world on mobile phones, tweet and surf the net just about anywhere on the globe, and send and receive messages and e-mails with a simple click of a button. Though it’s always nice to receive an e-mail of message from a friend, nothing beats getting something tangible via snail mail!
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 3, 2009 at 10:08 pm.
I was very apprehensive during the days leading up to my birthday on September 24th. A lot of it had to do with superstitious reasons (I could write a novel just about the superstitious stuff leading up to my 24th), but it also had to do with being alone on my birthday for the very first time. I’ve always had family and friends to celebrate with, and now that the most important birthday of my life was coming up, I was and would be alone.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 3, 2009 at 3:38 pm.
I had to return Dee a couple of days ago and it was a little sad to let her go. We’d spent the last month travelling Queensland together and had a good thing going. I checked her oil and water tank every time we stopped for fuel (which was pretty much every day), and she only had one minor hiccup during the entire trip.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 3, 2009 at 12:22 pm.
Sarah and I both ordered the native platter entree (note: in Australia, an “entree” is an appetizer and a “main” is an entree) because it comes with an assortment of native berries, home-made damper (a heavy herb bread – I think it was thyme), native dips, kangaroo, emu and crocodile. We also asked to have a bit of Tasmanian possum thrown in as well.
Posted by
Anny Chih on October 1, 2009 at 12:11 am.
I figured since it was rated the #1 tourist attraction in all of Queensland and Vineeta liked it so much, I really ought to visit it. Going there would mean driving up North again (counter-productive since I was already on my way down South), and also missing Charters Towers. “Yeah, alright. Let’s go to Paronella Park and see what all the hype is about” I thought. Man alive, I CANNOT believe I almost missed Paronella Park!! Seriously, I just kept repeating in my head as I left the place “I cannot believe I almost missed this!”
Posted by
Anny Chih on September 27, 2009 at 7:46 am.
I fed them, I played with them, I lay on the grass with them, I took pictures of them, I took pictures with them, I saw them as roadkill, I saw many of them as roadkill, I learned how to tell them apart, I learned how to avoid hitting them on the road, I learned how to shoot them, I learned about their habits, I took a tour about them, and now… it was time to eat one!