King's Quest: Cairns to Magnetic Island!

Saturday I spent walking around Cairns. Not much there really, just the lagoon (man-made pool) and the clubs/pubs. I guess it's a big tourist center because you can go the reef on one of the MANY tours there, bungie jump, skydive, raft white-water, etc. It's more of a place you go to so you can go to other places. Anyways, after walking around and getting chased by a big-ass bee I met up with another animator from AL Sarah and her friend James. We had dinner at this restaurant where the servers were hot! but also as dumb as they were hot! So, as you could imagine, I was in heaven! Not really sure what their jobs were as we had to go up to order and then go and pick up the pick when it was ready, but I didn't care! Then we hit up this western-looking club with Sarah's dormmate's. What's the obsession with black lights?!?!?! SO ANNOYING!

Sunday I took the 6 hour bus ride down to Townsville, Capital of North Queensland :P. I get there and I ask the thing behind the counter at my hostel what's good on a Sunday night? "Cri is the best. It's two blocks away. get there at 9, trust me. Oink." oooohhhkkaaay. So I hang out at my hostel watching Finding Nemo with a bunch of Germans until 9. Now this is what I want for our movie, or any movie that I work on in the future, that it can have EVERYONE riveted and glued to the screen even though they barely speak english! I get to the club @ 9:05 - 9:10ish and the first thing I hear as I enter is: "Do you want to see that shirt coming off?!?!?!?!" SWEET!!! I've walked into the middle of a wet T-shirt contest!!!! Thank you beast!!! The chick who won took everything off but her panties and had some good moves. She ended up coming away with $700 for her... umm... talents. Sorry, no pics.. I thought about it but some guy tried it and the bouncers were all over him. It was funny though cuz once the contest ended all us guys were like "OK, cool... lets talk to some chicks!" and then I turned around and realized there wasn't any so I went back to my hostel and passed out!

Monday will be remembered as the day I walked more than I think I ever have in a day. It started off with me hiking up Townsville's version of the Grouse Grind, except I did it @ 10:30am on a scorching hot day... without having had breakfast... or bringing water... and in flip-flops... yeah I'm a tool! then I walked down it again and down to the beachfront called The Strand; voted Queensland's cleanest beach. A nice 2.5 km walk down it to the end and then another 2.5 km walk back and I was ready for some food... and water. I ate at this cafe on the Strand with a beautiful view of Magnetic Island, home of my sister Kathryn. After lunch and a shower I boarded the ferry to "Maggie". And then walked 3km, with my pack on!, to Kathryn's work.