After almost a week in Gili T we took the boat back to Kuta for a couple days before we would head down to Australia. We took the boat over with Chris, Suzanne, Claire, and Katie; Ben stayed behind one extra day to finish his PADI. We each had four breakfast boxes on the way. We stayed back at the same hotel and had a nice relaxing time. We went to Skygarden one last time and spent a couple more long hot days on the beach. Nothing else too exciting happened. We did some swimming in the pool which was much more refreshing than sitting in the heat on the beach.
We left for Australia leaving Suzanne, Ben, and Chris behind and headed to the airport. After a long walk down the road talking to dozens of cabbies we finally got a ride there for 25,000. We hit a roadblock when we tried to check in though. We didn’t know it but we needed a tourist visa to get into Australia. Fortunately the people at the airport were really nice and let us use a computer and printer in the back of the airport to print off our visas; which took about five minutes. We eventually made our way through check in and through to the bus shuttle to the airplane across the tarmac. As we were getting on the bus a drunk Aussie guy was getting off to use the washroom but ended up getting in an argument with airport officials and didn’t get on the plane afterwards. We did though, and so made our way down to Brisbane.
Steeves
