Agnes Water, OZ
Well, I've been here three days now, my second at "Cool Bananas." So far, it's living up to its billing as a very nice hostel. It is immaculately kept and has a very pleasant layout. It's not large and as there's very little in this town, this hostel definitely is of the Black Hole variety.
Friday, I drove up to Bundaberg, which is best known for its Rum. It's a huge sugar production area so it's not just the rum, but why most people have heard of the place. Many backpackers stop there to work in the fields, most that I met were doing vegetable picking, the sugar season hasn't started. Friday night was a loud one at the main bar in town. I met up with Hugh and Adam, two guys that I'd met in Brisbane and Dingo, from Fraser Island. It was rather fun, a good band playing outside and decent dance music within. And the crowd was a very motley group indeed.
The next morning the heat woke me early. I found a campervan supply store that I'd passed the evening before, and was able to get a new faucet for my sink in Vacilando. It's finally working! This means that I can fill the watertank under Vac to carry non-drinking water, for cleaning and for the radiator. This is something that I'll need once I hit the outback and the East coast is getting smalller and smaller as I move towards its end.
I have to digress for a moment. They just finished watching "I Robot," here at the hostel. It's final credits say that it was "suggested by the writings of Isaac Asimov." What kind of crap, is that? I happen to love Asimov's writing and am still annoyed that they made a movie that runs contrary to everything that Asimov wrote about. The movie is about robots attacking people. Asimov's writing was not about robots as monsters. And while he did write about robot attacks they were inadvertent rather than diabolical. Grrr.... It just ticks me off. There, vented.
Upon arriving in Agnes Water and 1770, it rained, a lot. There have been storms passing overhead for the past 4 days or so, dumping rain for an hour at a time. Sometimes, there's lightening as well. I should really get the wipers fixed eh? You'd be surprised at how good Rain-X is though. After the deluge, I swung by Bananas to enquire about a room. I'd been hearing about the hostel for some days, and figured I'd give it a go. They assured me there were plenty of beds, so I said I was going to go to the beach and check in later. No worries. When I got back, the place had filled up, "so with tears in our eyes, we headed off into the Sunset, looking for another place to..." sleep. I'd met up with Adam and Hugh again at this point. They left Bundaberg a few hours after I did and passed me just as we arrived in town.
We eventually ended up a campground that was $4 a night. It was absolutely crawling with bugs. We had a relaxed evening among them, cooked some dinner and finally got to see the stars. It's been days since there's been a good night of stars, what between the clouds and the recently full moon. The stars were pretty.
So, that gets me close to present. I'm staying another night here, or so. And then pushing up the coast again. I'm going to make every effort not to get sucked into this place.
Friday, I drove up to Bundaberg, which is best known for its Rum. It's a huge sugar production area so it's not just the rum, but why most people have heard of the place. Many backpackers stop there to work in the fields, most that I met were doing vegetable picking, the sugar season hasn't started. Friday night was a loud one at the main bar in town. I met up with Hugh and Adam, two guys that I'd met in Brisbane and Dingo, from Fraser Island. It was rather fun, a good band playing outside and decent dance music within. And the crowd was a very motley group indeed.
The next morning the heat woke me early. I found a campervan supply store that I'd passed the evening before, and was able to get a new faucet for my sink in Vacilando. It's finally working! This means that I can fill the watertank under Vac to carry non-drinking water, for cleaning and for the radiator. This is something that I'll need once I hit the outback and the East coast is getting smalller and smaller as I move towards its end.
I have to digress for a moment. They just finished watching "I Robot," here at the hostel. It's final credits say that it was "suggested by the writings of Isaac Asimov." What kind of crap, is that? I happen to love Asimov's writing and am still annoyed that they made a movie that runs contrary to everything that Asimov wrote about. The movie is about robots attacking people. Asimov's writing was not about robots as monsters. And while he did write about robot attacks they were inadvertent rather than diabolical. Grrr.... It just ticks me off. There, vented.
Upon arriving in Agnes Water and 1770, it rained, a lot. There have been storms passing overhead for the past 4 days or so, dumping rain for an hour at a time. Sometimes, there's lightening as well. I should really get the wipers fixed eh? You'd be surprised at how good Rain-X is though. After the deluge, I swung by Bananas to enquire about a room. I'd been hearing about the hostel for some days, and figured I'd give it a go. They assured me there were plenty of beds, so I said I was going to go to the beach and check in later. No worries. When I got back, the place had filled up, "so with tears in our eyes, we headed off into the Sunset, looking for another place to..." sleep. I'd met up with Adam and Hugh again at this point. They left Bundaberg a few hours after I did and passed me just as we arrived in town.
We eventually ended up a campground that was $4 a night. It was absolutely crawling with bugs. We had a relaxed evening among them, cooked some dinner and finally got to see the stars. It's been days since there's been a good night of stars, what between the clouds and the recently full moon. The stars were pretty.
So, that gets me close to present. I'm staying another night here, or so. And then pushing up the coast again. I'm going to make every effort not to get sucked into this place.
posted by Bob Stein at 8:37 PM
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