day 20: Magnum Backpackers, Airlie Beach 20°16'8.10"S 148°43'7.40"E Km 8822

Well, today was one of those you-do-not-want-to-remember day...
Leaving Cairns heading South towards Townsville, it was night, pretty rainy when I saw what I firstly considered as a bright thunder lighting but oddly without noise... He m!#$%^&! I just got flashed by a speed camera. I made a Uie "pour en avoir le coeur net" and indeed, a police car was parked on the side of the road in the dark, no lights. Well, I expect a nice "prune" written by my dear friend Officer Sergeant Ritchie back home in Melbourne (as a funny thing, in Australia [or maybe just Victoria], all traffic tickets are issued by Officer Sergeant Ritchie).
Then, to end up the evening "en beaute", as I started to get sleepy while driving, I decided to spend the night in the car on a rest area (these moments when you realise how comfortable is your bed back home...). As it was raining pretty hard (the local newspaper I had a read at while eating a Double Whopper with Cheese at Hungry Jack was forecasting a potential cyclone named "Jim" right in the area I was in...), as I attached my surfboard on the roof with the straps' ends inside the car with the door closed over, I woke up this morning being the witness of this physical phenomenon known as "water capillarity": water dripped all night in the car, more precisely on the plastic-blue Ikea bag I used to put my clean and dry laundry from the day before. Another physical phenomenon occurred: dyeing or more precisely nice blue-coloured transfer from the Ikea bag (awesome Swedish people with their blue plastic made-in-China bags...) onto my clothes.
I was good to go and find the nearest Laundromat in Townsville.
Arrived at the Laundromat,I put my wet and half-blue clothes in the washing machine and selected "Regular" & "Warm". That gave me 32 minutes of reading into my circumstance book "Merde, Actually".
Well, 32 minutes, later the blue colour stains were still on my clothes.
I inserted the 2nd set of 3x1 $ coins and set up the cycle to "Regular" & "Hot" telling myself, the hotter, the easier the dye would go off.
32 minutes later and 25 pages later, opening the lid and having a look at my clothes put me in this I-want-to-kick-this-"censored"-washing-machine state of mind: all my former white clothes turned fully to a nice vivid purple colour...
Showing no external signs of stress and frustration, I went next door and bought a bottle of "White King" bleach, inserted the 3rd set of 3x1 $ coins, waited for the water to fill in and poured frenetically a good dose of bleach in the washing machine, with the hope this could drown the washing machine...
Well, after a 4th set of 3x1 $ coins for the dryer and 24 more minutes, the result was there! Back to dry and white. If I met at this moment Will Smith from "Men in Black", I would ask him to use his flashy-tiny-pen in order to delete the last 12 hours off my memory...
I hit the road again towards Airlie Beach where I checked in Magnum Backpackers. The place is nice and arranged in a tropical fashion. Plenty of people as well !

Update: find above the nice ticket... Wow ! Nice picture of my car ;-)