The bus ride was pretty rough, but I managed to sleep a little. The problem wasn't really not being able to stretch out, or my sunburned back, but the weird stops. I got on at 11 and fell asleep, then the driver woke us up at midnight for dinner. I stayed onboard and went back asleep, but then we had another dinner stop at 1 am. I guess people on busses get the latenight munchies or something. The worst thing was when they woke us up and kicked us off the bus at 5 am. After that I slept on and off until they played another crappy Disney movie, the one about the geeky schoolgirl who becomes a princess.

I arrived at Hervey Bay at 12:30, and checked into Fraser Escape, which is hot, dirty, and had bugs on the floor. Pretty much par for the course. The thing to do here is a safari on Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, but I'm not looking forward to it. It's not having to spend three days with people I don't know that scares me, I've gotten used to that. It's the fact that the tour is unguided, so we will be cooking for ourselves, and trying to navigate and keep to a schedule. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I got to meet my group at our briefing, and that may be a problem too. There's a Canadian couple who won't talk to anyone, and five German-speaking people who are traveling together. So everyone already seems to know each other. I hope the next three days don't suck.