Sunday, May 14, 2006

Ocean Rafting


Everyone off the Dream Catcher met up for a few drinks in a bar in Airlie Beach. There was a raffle, and Sam and I won free tickets worth $200 to go 'Ocean Rafting' around the Whitsundays. Not being sure what Ocean Rafting was we rocked up at the harbour on Friday and jumped into a big inflatable dingy. A 500 Bhp inflatable dingy! It was awesome, again the weather was bad and the waves massive. A crazy Aussie guy hurtles you around the whitsundays to see in 6 hours what took us 3 days on the sailing boat. These pictures were taken where the water was flat in a bay. It was impossible to take photos when it was rough. The whole boat would lift out of the water so you could here both engines scream, it was wicked. I had this smile plastered over my face for the whole 6 hours.
Sam was a little more shaken (literally, she couldn't eat when we stopped for lunch as her hands were shaking so much). She described it as being on a rollercoaster ride but not for 30 seconds - 6 hours !
We both had a great day, and well deserved after spending 2 days sat in a mechanics office, and crusing the isles of Woolworths waiting for the van to pass its Road Worthy test.

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

It still wasn't anywhere near as scary to me as sailing, and the reason I was shaking was that I had to hold on to a rope with all my strength to stop me going over board for hours!

2:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your father would love the B&Q isles!

8:44 AM  

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