Cooly.

The other day Matthew and I decided to jump on a bus and head somewhere new. After looking through one of the few Australian to do books we have, we picked Coolangatta. After waiting for what felt like forever we got on the 700 bus and our adventure began.

As we were driving we saw a sign for honey world, a surf museum, and a wild life zoo type thing- we decided to get off and check it out. It was already past 4 so we didn't expect anything to be open because in Australia everything closes at like 6pm. No one really knows... The wild life place was open so we went and looked at some pretty birds while children fed them and let them land on them. No thank you. I don't really like birds all that much.

After we got back on the bus we decided to get off when we saw a small town and a beautiful beach. We wanted a smoothie but of course, Australians decide when they want their store to be open and when they need a break.

Typical sign --->

We decided against the smoothie and walked up a gnarly hill instead. It was worth it. We were able to look out over Cooly and see the beach stretch for miles and the waves go for what seemed like forever. We thought it was the most beautiful thing we'd seen all day. Good thing it wasn't. It only got better as the sun set.

After walking through the town a bit, we got hungry so of course when we saw a Nandos we couldn't pass it up. We're seriously obsessed, with reason of course.

When we finished our Nandos we walked to the beach and headed over to this area that almost looks like it doesn't belong on the beach. It is covered with tall trees, almost like a rain-forest. That's another thing about Australia, they randomly have pine trees planted everywhere. At Bond (our Uni) while we're waiting for the bus I feel like I'm in Oregon because of all the trees surrounding the school. Or the first time I got off the bus at Burleigh I remember thinking I was camping because there are tons and tons of trees just lining the beach. It's crazy. Anyways- we "hiked" up a few steps to a nice little look out and watched the sun set. Oh my goodness, it was incredible. These pictures don't even do it justice.

When we finished watching the sunset we headed back and told our roommates all about it. Little did we know we'd be back the next day hanging on the beach, "hiking," and eating Nandos again. Perfection. I'll blog later about the weekend. Time to go to PacFair and get the boy some hangers and pens. Also some sushi- I'm starving.

Cheers for now, mates :)!