This is what I woke up to Easter Sunday. A bunny yelling loudly, leading heaps of people through the bay.
As we were working on the deck Sam pulls in on his yellow cruizer of a boat and out comes who? An American! I kinda knew when he said her name was Emily. It was somethin else because on my travels I usually never see Americans because I'm in such hidden places for the most part. Looking at her face, I think I saw what I must look like when I arrive at a new place, just beaming with smiles and so stoked. The rush of being somewhere completely new. We were talking for a bit and she said in a serious tone, looking at the work I was doing, "it looks like you really know what you're doin." And I said, "nahhh not really, I just act like I know what I'm doin ahahah."
Fast forward a few days and it's Emily's birthday. The first bit of the day we cruized into the marina where they have a big netted area (keeping out critters like jelly fish and bull sharks) where you can swim and take showers, then we took the train to a nearby city to get groceries for the next week. Me and Emily were peeing our pants walking through the mall because there was so much good food! Yet, it was so expensive we didn't buy anything. It really was just too much. Way too much stimulation. It was insanely crowded.
Near where we docked the boat we talked to a group of true Auzzies sitting at a bench. Every day without fail they are here sippin on beer just hanging out. I don't think I've ever said it, but I love the accents. Hearing the raw language from people who've lived here their whole life. I had the ladies take turns driving the boat back and Tina almost swerved into a rock. We got back to the barge, unpacked the groceries, made lunch, took a lil power nap, then me and Emily decided to go chill with those peeps at the marina. Before I knew it, I had a six pack of Auzzie brewed apple cider that was mmmm refreshing. Near the shop at the marina we saw a few younger kids and one of them was near passed out on the road. Oh, shit. This poor thirteen year old dude who looked like a younger version of me, his eyes in the back of his head, was on the brink of alcohol poisoning and one of his buddies was being a real prick and didn't want to help him get home at all. They had to catch a train so I picked him up and he clung to me, oblivious to what was going on. Poor guy.
Afterwards, I met up with everyone and we started walking up a hill with this middle aged bearded man and his girlfriend. We made it to a park above the marina and we were led down the other end. Needless to say, we made it to their home. A yellow-green tent under a huge overhanging rock with a light blue hammock, a single dark blue couch chair, a fire pit, and two ropes that were pulled around three trees as if that declared the walls that were their home. Wow. Me and Emily looked at each other. Ahahaha. Keith, I think his name was, started rolling a joint, and well, how can I deny such an adventure? Here I am sitting on a light blue hammock with the Hawkesbury River right below me, cider in one hand, passing around a joint with Emily on her birthday and some Strayin' cave dwellers. This is wild.
The sun started setting and we said we better get going. Keith gave me some grass, and literally I kid you not, the only thing he had to put it in was a little white bottle with a brown lid that said "faeces container" on it. Thank goodness he had never used it. Dotting the marina are flattop grills that anyone can use and some mates were grilling up some snags on the bobi. I sparked some conversation and it was so chill. One guy had the most unique voice I've ever heard in person. The raspy quality was, come to find out, because of lung cancer. The vibes here are incredible! It was just about dark now, and getting in the boat was like getting in a spaceship. I was swerving around just having fun and we saw that the cave dwellers started a fire. I yelled up, "ayyyy throw on a Braut, would yuh mate!?" A few moments later in a slightly slurred voice we heard, "We got beers!" The ride to the barge I'm sitting on the back part near the engine driving our spaceship blissfully inebriated and Emily is standing on the front, looking up at the sky, with her arms spread out.
I water parked the boat like a master and when we got in Tina was almost done with dinner. How nice. Homemade burgers. Sam and Sarah, who had shows in Sydney that day, got back a little after us, and we all settled down for dinner talking about the craziness that just happened, and then Tina whipped out some sparklers and everyone sang happy birthday with sparklers in hand.
The night concluded with a bonfire at the beach with some of Sam's friends, and when me, Tina, and Emily were heading back on our boat, the engine stalled. Sam cruized up to us, and tried to start it about a hundred times, and I was giggling and laughing like a kid because it was so funny to me. I wonder why.
Fast forward a few days and it's Emily's birthday. The first bit of the day we cruized into the marina where they have a big netted area (keeping out critters like jelly fish and bull sharks) where you can swim and take showers, then we took the train to a nearby city to get groceries for the next week. Me and Emily were peeing our pants walking through the mall because there was so much good food! Yet, it was so expensive we didn't buy anything. It really was just too much. Way too much stimulation. It was insanely crowded.
Near where we docked the boat we talked to a group of true Auzzies sitting at a bench. Every day without fail they are here sippin on beer just hanging out. I don't think I've ever said it, but I love the accents. Hearing the raw language from people who've lived here their whole life. I had the ladies take turns driving the boat back and Tina almost swerved into a rock. We got back to the barge, unpacked the groceries, made lunch, took a lil power nap, then me and Emily decided to go chill with those peeps at the marina. Before I knew it, I had a six pack of Auzzie brewed apple cider that was mmmm refreshing. Near the shop at the marina we saw a few younger kids and one of them was near passed out on the road. Oh, shit. This poor thirteen year old dude who looked like a younger version of me, his eyes in the back of his head, was on the brink of alcohol poisoning and one of his buddies was being a real prick and didn't want to help him get home at all. They had to catch a train so I picked him up and he clung to me, oblivious to what was going on. Poor guy.
Afterwards, I met up with everyone and we started walking up a hill with this middle aged bearded man and his girlfriend. We made it to a park above the marina and we were led down the other end. Needless to say, we made it to their home. A yellow-green tent under a huge overhanging rock with a light blue hammock, a single dark blue couch chair, a fire pit, and two ropes that were pulled around three trees as if that declared the walls that were their home. Wow. Me and Emily looked at each other. Ahahaha. Keith, I think his name was, started rolling a joint, and well, how can I deny such an adventure? Here I am sitting on a light blue hammock with the Hawkesbury River right below me, cider in one hand, passing around a joint with Emily on her birthday and some Strayin' cave dwellers. This is wild.
The sun started setting and we said we better get going. Keith gave me some grass, and literally I kid you not, the only thing he had to put it in was a little white bottle with a brown lid that said "faeces container" on it. Thank goodness he had never used it. Dotting the marina are flattop grills that anyone can use and some mates were grilling up some snags on the bobi. I sparked some conversation and it was so chill. One guy had the most unique voice I've ever heard in person. The raspy quality was, come to find out, because of lung cancer. The vibes here are incredible! It was just about dark now, and getting in the boat was like getting in a spaceship. I was swerving around just having fun and we saw that the cave dwellers started a fire. I yelled up, "ayyyy throw on a Braut, would yuh mate!?" A few moments later in a slightly slurred voice we heard, "We got beers!" The ride to the barge I'm sitting on the back part near the engine driving our spaceship blissfully inebriated and Emily is standing on the front, looking up at the sky, with her arms spread out.
I water parked the boat like a master and when we got in Tina was almost done with dinner. How nice. Homemade burgers. Sam and Sarah, who had shows in Sydney that day, got back a little after us, and we all settled down for dinner talking about the craziness that just happened, and then Tina whipped out some sparklers and everyone sang happy birthday with sparklers in hand.
The night concluded with a bonfire at the beach with some of Sam's friends, and when me, Tina, and Emily were heading back on our boat, the engine stalled. Sam cruized up to us, and tried to start it about a hundred times, and I was giggling and laughing like a kid because it was so funny to me. I wonder why.
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