After one night's recovery from Fraser Island and a FANTASTIC sleep in a dry bed, we had an early morning off to Kroombit, otherwise known as the Cattle Station. 
Lucky Carmen (one of our canadian girls) got to spend half her birthday on a bus! We got there mid-afternoon in the sun and were checked in right away so we could begin some real "cowboy" activities. As you can imagine, us Calgary/Alberta girls were right at home :) Our first activity was goat mustering on horseback, which basically means us herding goats from a huge field into a small pen by yelling at them. Picture 
this...oh and we were wearing helmets :) Just when we were finishing, we realized that ALL the gates were open, so we really weren't herding the goats into anywhere at all...it started to POUR, we got drenched, horses got spooked..it just really wasn't a successful mustering attempt at all!! We weren't too keen on anything 
being soaked and all, but onto other activities such as firing a shotgun, learning to lasso (which has proven to be quite difficult!), goat wrestling and learning to crack a whip (also harder than it looks). Dinner was so yummy and after we all sat and watched people attmept the mechanical bull - sorry to say that neither of us tried it to save ourselves the embarassment of falling off after 2 seconds:) yay Sam!!! As it was Carmen's birthday, the crew at 
Kroombit made her a cake (along with the other birthday guests - there were 3!) and we all sang them happy birthday around their oil drum fire!
Lucky Carmen (one of our canadian girls) got to spend half her birthday on a bus! We got there mid-afternoon in the sun and were checked in right away so we could begin some real "cowboy" activities. As you can imagine, us Calgary/Alberta girls were right at home :) Our first activity was goat mustering on horseback, which basically means us herding goats from a huge field into a small pen by yelling at them. Picture 
this...oh and we were wearing helmets :) Just when we were finishing, we realized that ALL the gates were open, so we really weren't herding the goats into anywhere at all...it started to POUR, we got drenched, horses got spooked..it just really wasn't a successful mustering attempt at all!! We weren't too keen on anything 
being soaked and all, but onto other activities such as firing a shotgun, learning to lasso (which has proven to be quite difficult!), goat wrestling and learning to crack a whip (also harder than it looks). Dinner was so yummy and after we all sat and watched people attmept the mechanical bull - sorry to say that neither of us tried it to save ourselves the embarassment of falling off after 2 seconds:) yay Sam!!! As it was Carmen's birthday, the crew at 
Kroombit made her a cake (along with the other birthday guests - there were 3!) and we all sang them happy birthday around their oil drum fire!
Another early start the next morning off to Airlie Beach which was the longest bus we have had to endure on the east coast route! 7am to about 4:30....ugh. Good thing we have ipods! Airlie beach is the starting point for the Whitsundays Sailing trips and we didn't spend too much time there. The town is pretty cute though, a lot of cafes and tons of bars to suit all the backpackers going through there, not to mention the 80% male 
population...a lot of "footy" teams I think. Not that we're complaining..;) We got a chance to do some walks on the boarwalk along the coast..check out the colour of the water!!! Then we set off for the Whitsundays!! BUT...we'll save our sailing adventures for another time because it definitely deserves it's own blog!!
population...a lot of "footy" teams I think. Not that we're complaining..;) We got a chance to do some walks on the boarwalk along the coast..check out the colour of the water!!! Then we set off for the Whitsundays!! BUT...we'll save our sailing adventures for another time because it definitely deserves it's own blog!!Until then...
Laur and Laur
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