Paul the Octopus

Luke called everyone at 7am, we dragged ourselves out of our tents and reminisced about Winki’s over our scrambled eggs, toast and orange juice breakfast. I made the champion scrambled eggs!

We packed ourselves back into the jeeps and took off down the beach again, singing our hearts out and being thrown around on the uneven sand, as usual. First stop – The Champagne Pools. Since you cannot swim in the sea, there was rock formations which waves crash over forming pools with wavy foam, like natural jacuzzi’s! Brilliant! We all got it, but the wind had picked up and the sea was crazy choppy, so the cold sea air pelted sand off our legs when we got out. Nothing could wipe the smiles off our faces though! (Champagne Pools, below)

After our swim we went to Indian Head, a high part on the Island, overlooking the sea and lots of the Island dunes and forests. This is where you can usually spot whales, sharks and dolphins but the sea was too choppy to see anything unfortunately. The view was magnificent though! (Panoramic from Indians Head looking inland)

(Looking out over the sea, below)

We made wraps for lunch and then Luke brought us to Eli creek, which was the lazy river. He gave our team, obviously the best team, a blow up octopus he named Paul. We all hung off Paul as we floated down the river twice together. The people not swimming that waited at the end said they could hear us before the saw us. They also spotted a huge snake swim through the water before we got to the end, AHHH!

Also, earlier we saw a group of people trying to push a tour bus out of the sand and later that same bus overheated, caught fire and blew up. Don’t worry everyone evacuated the bus. We stopped to get pictures though! CRAZY!!! Do the self drive, NOT the bus tours, apparently this is not the first tour bus explosion on the beach! (Before & after pictures - crazy)

We were all exhausted after our day of adventure, so we asked Luke to bring us back a little early to camp so we could get a head start on dinner before everyone else arrived back and the kitchen was teaming with people. The self-drive is only a 2 night, 3 day tour, so we were no longer the newbie’s on camp, we ruled the place now and knew how it all worked J Asian Chicken Stirfry was on the menu for dinner which was so nice. I chopped the chicken and Eimear chopped the vegetables, as she said Ger, her Mam wont let her at home, she’s afraid she’d cut off her fingers. She did quite a nice job Ger! Ha, ha!

After dinner, it was goon and Winki’s ROUND 2!