Balgal beach

I spent yesterday bumming around at Balgal Beach. As the sun went down a heap of old locals came down and had a full moon party on the beach. They lit a fire and sat around having drinks. The moon came up over Magnetic Island and was really impressive. 

Can you tell I've been at this photo with snapseed? 

Girl on a horse that came riding through. 

Today I woke up and went for a swim. The water was still a bit murky even at high tide. Still very nice though. I set my solar panel out with a battery to charge while I had breakfast. It was not even 10 metres from my tent. When I went to check on it, it was gone. A couple of German guys had just packed up and left so I assumed they saw it there and thought they'd have it.

I decided to see if I could catch up to them. I was hoping they'd stop at the servo on the highway for petrol. It was a pretty long shot and when I arrived the lady behind the counter said they hadn't had two German blokes come through that morning.

I went for a quick ride around Balgal and couldn't find them so I went back to camp before everything else got stolen. Not long after the dude that seems to live here came back from somewhere. I went up to ask if he saw the Germans take a solar panel. Turns out he had seen them leave, thought they'd forgot their solar panel, grabbed it and took off after them. This seemed plausible to me but then he said he was just about to make some signs to put up. What a load of bollocks. I reckon he thought the Germans left the solar panel and he thought he'd have it. 

After that delay I went for a short ride to a place where map.me says there are waterfalls and google maps says there is nothing. I got to where the road ends and came across this sign:

It says "Don't do it, Ben. You aren't cut out for this". 

It was actually a fairly easy km and a half walk. The track goes on for another 33km which I think I probably shouldn't do. Not far along I almost trod on what I thought was a lizard. As it slithered away I realised it was a little brown snake, about 2 ft long. That could've been the end of me. 

The walk was through a nice rainforest and it wasn't a maintained path like the popular walks. At the end I came across a small waterfall and a swimming hole at the bottom. Two girls were already there. I asked how they knew it was there and they said instagram. I'll have to keep that in mind because google didn't show it at all. 

I went for a swim then went back to a clearing to launch the drone and flew it back to the waterfall. Unfortunately I'm on data and can't upload the video. 

Now I'm back a Balgal Beach, about to light the fire.