Don't let the bed bugs bite...

After an amazing day of sun sand and surf, it was time to board the boat and head to the famous Whitehaven beach. Throughout the day some of us were feeling quite itchy, thinking they were just nasty mozie bites (mosquitos) we went on our way, however we found out that sure enough our boat had BED BUGS! Awesome.... And we still had one more night to spend aboard the inferno bug ridden boat, thank God the views were spectacular. We spent another night drinking and playing card games and getting to know the people on the boat with us who came from all over, people from aussie, the states, Ireland, England, and Scotland. As we sailed to our next destination we took in the views and listened to a cool Australian band that the captain, Rick, liked. As the sun set we could see the beautiful white beach from the distance and were so looking forward to setting foot on the famous beach, but we had the night and the bed bugs to get through first, needless to say we didn't sleep much. Going on day three without showering we all were pretty grimy. We headed up top for a final view of the sunrise on the Whitsunday's, to discover that there was a mission to finish all the alcohol on board and we apparently had almost succeeded, looked to be two goon bags left and the irish kid was making sure those weren't going to waste as he cracked open a bag and started to drink... it was about 630 AM. after eating we changed into our damp suits and headed to the beach, with a warning of how fine the sand was that if one grain got into a camera, watch, phone it would be ruined, so needless to say only one of us brought a camera. The beach was outstanding the sand was so soft it almost didn't feel real! The crew was right, the sand stuck to EVERYTHING (pretty sure there is still some embedded in my towel from the trip). It was pretty early so it was a little chilly, but we laid out and soaked up the early morning rays before having to head back to the bed bug infested boat and home to the hostel. At this point all of us were itching and were starting to show signs of the attack, my right leg was peppered with tiny red horribly itchy bumps. We learned that if you itched these they would scar, and after my stint with foliculitis right before the trip I wasn't about to take any chances, so I powered through the itch. One girl was covered she even had bites on her face! Even after she slept completely bundled up. After the morning on the world famous beach it was time to head home for the end of the voyage at sea, we were sad and excited to shower! We threw up the sail and coasted all the way back to the port, where we docked and unloaded and said bye to our new friends, and rushed to the pharmacy to get anti itch and to check into our hostel for showers! It was just an after thought that the ship would be sponsoring us dinner at a little pub down the road. After feeling clean and not so itchy, we headed for free pizza and beer with our shipmates and the captain Rick! who says quote, "I do this job for the ladies", what a guy! That night we decided the next day to get tattoos! thats right tattoos!!!