Don't have time to cover it all so here is part 1

Hello All

Well sorry for being off line for a while but having been at sea for a while, my internet access has been very limited.

When I left off Sophie and I were going to watch a DVD with Margo in our room in Rainbow beach as it was raining. Well we had a fab time watching the Island and after that Margo (who is Dutch not Swedish as per previous post, I am a tad senile) ran off to get some food. Sophie and I were popping out of our room ourselves when a mop of long brown hair and outspread arms, shouting incoherently came running towards us. Before we could get too alarmed we realised it was Keren from our Noosa trip and the incoherent language was Hebrew.

Being girls we hugged and screamed, it was so cool to see her. She told us that Larissa was going in on the 7pm coach too so we had a chance to catch up before we lurked around the coach stop waiting for her to come in (of course her bus was delayed so it was 8pm before we could surprise her and scare everyone getting off at Rainbow beach with our screaming).

What followed was a pretty legendary night for us, so happy to be reunited for one last night. The 5 of us (as Margo also joined us and got on like a house on fire with the girls) dranks lots of wine, chatted, shared chocolate, got increasingly boisterous and than decided that we could sing louder than the group of 50 odd Brazilians that had invaded our Hostel bar. NOt bad going since we only seemed to know about 1/2 the words of all the songs that we picked to sing. They had to withdraw to the beach, obviously recognising our superior ability to be very very noisy. Later we exchanged bad jokes with a group of Irish lads, before prising an amorous Brazilian off Larissa and heading back to our room to watch sophie dance, chat some more, take more silly photos and generally have a great time.

the next day we hung around the beach as it had actually stoppped raining before saying a really sad farewell to Larissa and Keren (Margo was on our coach) and heading to Airley beach for a long 14 hour over night coach journey, before getting straight on to our sail boat (The Madison) that evening for 3 nights sailing round the Whitsunday islands...

Well I will have to tell you all about that another time as I am almost out of time on this computer but it includes our group being me, Sophie and a group of 10 american students. I admit that I contemplated jumping over board at one point... but more details when I have a chance. Hopefully when I am in Adelaide.

Love to all