Those pictures are my bus stop... :)Ha, so I now am at the mercy of the bus system in Airlie Beach... which is not like a busy city's system at all.
A bus comes every hour to half hour or so, but runs on hours that are ever so slightly not comprable to my work schedule. I find myself waking 3 hour before I have to, to take a bus 2 hours before I must arrive into work. Yuck.
This is because I have taken a job as a "WWOOFer". This means a Willing Worker On Organic Farms. So right now I work 5 hours a day for free accomodation and food at Plants Whitsunday, which is a plant nursery just outside of town (9 Kilometers) (Just outside the main town bus stops).
So I was able to flag down the bus going into town two days in a row, but the third day, not so lucky. Since I get picked up outside my work on the main roads, it could possibly be hard to see me waiving, but not when I wave rediculously to try and catch a bus!
So, I ended up trying to hitch-hike... ha! It didn't work. Not many cars went by after the bus, and no one was feeling friendly that morning... but oh well. I was able to find a ride from one of the workers at the nursery luckily!
Made it to work on time (another work at a travel agency to make a bit of income too)
Anywho... flash forward, I get off work and wait 40 min in town to catch a bus home... this is the first bus I have caught at this time around 6:40 pm and aparently it wasn't the right bus. So the ending destination was about 3 kilometers out from where I still needed to go.
So I walked... in the dusk, then in the dark. I did have my little flash light with me that my mom got me. It was a big help. Saw some road kill... and had some quiet time (because my ipod ran out of battery).
Needless to say, I got home safe in a heap of sweat because of the 99.9% humidity rate at the moment, but it is a very safe town and all is good.
I technically only have to take the bus 3 or 4 days a week too, which is not terrible... but being at the mercy of another schedule is no fun :).
A bus comes every hour to half hour or so, but runs on hours that are ever so slightly not comprable to my work schedule. I find myself waking 3 hour before I have to, to take a bus 2 hours before I must arrive into work. Yuck.
This is because I have taken a job as a "WWOOFer". This means a Willing Worker On Organic Farms. So right now I work 5 hours a day for free accomodation and food at Plants Whitsunday, which is a plant nursery just outside of town (9 Kilometers) (Just outside the main town bus stops).
So I was able to flag down the bus going into town two days in a row, but the third day, not so lucky. Since I get picked up outside my work on the main roads, it could possibly be hard to see me waiving, but not when I wave rediculously to try and catch a bus!
So, I ended up trying to hitch-hike... ha! It didn't work. Not many cars went by after the bus, and no one was feeling friendly that morning... but oh well. I was able to find a ride from one of the workers at the nursery luckily!
Made it to work on time (another work at a travel agency to make a bit of income too)
Anywho... flash forward, I get off work and wait 40 min in town to catch a bus home... this is the first bus I have caught at this time around 6:40 pm and aparently it wasn't the right bus. So the ending destination was about 3 kilometers out from where I still needed to go.
So I walked... in the dusk, then in the dark. I did have my little flash light with me that my mom got me. It was a big help. Saw some road kill... and had some quiet time (because my ipod ran out of battery).
Needless to say, I got home safe in a heap of sweat because of the 99.9% humidity rate at the moment, but it is a very safe town and all is good.
I technically only have to take the bus 3 or 4 days a week too, which is not terrible... but being at the mercy of another schedule is no fun :).
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