If you haven’t already before reading this, make sure you check out Brisbane to Townsville Road-trip Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.  If you have however been following along my road trip series, I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the tails and adventures. Don’t worry though Part 4 has many more to come.

So, where we left off is myself, Josh, Nick, Dave, Sean, John, Max, Lewis and Liam are at Arlie Beach and we are currently on a kayak tour. Seven of us got our own single seat kayak, Dave however got stuck sharing with the tour guide on a double kayak. But that was the least of our worries, Nick is the fisherman of the group, in fact he is the only one that likes fishing. So along the trip he’s consciously asked if we can go for a fish. What we didn’t know because Nicks Fishing Rod was a travel rod he’d brought it along the kayak tour.

So, as we were parked up admiring one of the coral reefs Nick started to assemble his compactable Fishing Rod. Josh was the first to notice and started to whisper to Nick how these are protected species and you’re not allowed to fish there. Not believing Josh, he continued to get his Fishing Rod & Reel ready. Josh began whisper yelling at Nick and even tried capsizing Nick’s kayak in order to try stop him. Once this didn’t work Josh physically snatched the now assembled travel rod from Nick’s hands. The commotion caught the attention of the tour guide, who turned around to see Josh holding a fishing rod and reel. The tourer guide went off, yelling at Josh explaining how you can’t fish here these are tropical protected fish. Josh tried explaining the rod wasn’t his, but it didn’t work he was seemly caught red handed. I thought my head was going to explored trying to contain my laughter. So, it was safe to say Josh was not too pleased with fisherman Nick, but don’t worry he got his revenge that’s for sure.

Our next adventure I had book and it was in fact a tow tube ride.  So, we all jump in the boat and headed out to the bay. They had a 3 person tow tube which was a flat curved design plus a double donut design 2 person tow tube. They had both tow tube going at the same time behind the boat so five of us could go at once. It was absolute blast from hitting the wake to the waves of the ocean it was truly wild.

What we didn’t know was whilst Josh and Max we’re in the boat waiting for their turn, Josh told the boat driving the fishing rod incident on the kayak tour. So, he’d agreed to give Nick some extra special treatment if he fell off the tow tube.

It wasn’t too long before Nick came flying off, so the boat circled around to pick him up using the tow tube. However, as Nick was mid-way climbing into the double donut tow tube the boat took off and sent Nick into the water. Thinking it was just an accident by the driver none of us in the tubes thought anything of it. That was until nick went to climb in the double tube again the same thing happened. This time we knew and the rest of us burst out laughing. We could even hear all the way from the boat the sound of Josh belly laughing. For the third time the towable tube came around to pick Nick up. This time Nick got further into the tube then the previously so we though maybe that was the last one however we thought wrong, the boat took off and Nick doing almost a backflip went flying into the water. Four times the charm, the donut tube came around to get Nick this time he got fully into the tube and was ready to go before the boat took off. Although once we hit that first wave Nicks arms had turned to jelly from exhausting trying to climb in the tube so he once again come flying off. Lucky for us it was hilarious, it was the best tow tube ride I’d ever had, and Nick certainly slept well that night.

The next morning was our last day so of course we decided to have another complementary buffet breakfast challenge. Being our last day on the island the stakes were even higher, so we ate enough breakfast to last us a week. Afterwards feeling quite round we decided to hit the beach and have a rest under some of the beach umbrellas and gazebo sun shades set up along the beach.

Sean had booked in and hired us four Jet skis, so we could go on our own adventure around the island. We’d each have to double and share a jet ski, so instead I come up with an idea. The hire shop also happed to offer Bodyboards and tow ropes. So naturally I decided we should try and put two and two together. So, we recreated the tow tube ride buy using the bodyboards. However, it was way more rough the waves of the ocean pounded us. Instead, we decide to Jet ski to a nice surf beach. Where we could Bodyboard some epic waves, we even chucked on some snorkel fins. That way we could really get the most from our Bodyboard and rip the waves.

After a few hours of Bodyboarding we were ready to head back to mainland and continue our road trip.

Do miss out on a mainland Adventures, so to found out how the rest of our road trip transpires.  Look out for Brisbane to Townsville Road-trip Part 5 which will be posted tomorrow.