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Diving the Reef and the Curse of Natural Buoyancy
... the reef, about the bright colours, thousands of colourful fish, etc is absolutely spot on! We swam alongside sharks, sting rays, turtles, fish smaller than your finger, fish bigger than May, rainbow coloured fish, giant clams, and coral all colours of the rainbow (though rarely red as red sunlight gets absorbed quickest so you can only see red coral very close to the surface. Highlights include:
1) Sharks – we saw about 6/7 reef sharks (some we probably saw twice) on ...
Cairns
... Unfortunately, a few days ago Spaceship had undergone a big restructuring and now shared all their depots with another campervan company, Traveller’s Autobarn. Therefore when we arrived there weren’t actually any Spaceship staff present and we were simply told to report to the local Toyota dealer for repairs.
Slightly frustrated we went in search of the campsite recommended by Wayne (the campervan driver we had met at Mission ...
Mareeba
... to make his way to the toilet in the pitch black night, it was going to be another brief visit to the side of the van. Made even more brief after spotting a bandacout 4 times the size of a rat, sitting staring at matt. Eventually shooing the pervy pest away it was time to do the deed and get back in the van as quickly as possible before the footsteps circling around him got any closer. Managing to prize ourselves away from paradise and sweet wallabies, we hit the road once ...
Crazy in Cairns
... designs to the one we had seen earlier, so we looked at some ideas on the internet, and then Fiona doodled something similar to the one we had seen. The tattoo artist then adapted it slightly before getting the needles ready to ink Lauren up! So, 10 minutes and a few (ahem) dollars later, Lauren was officially tattooed! It was then back to the hostel and then a bus to the airport, to catch our flight over to Perth!!
Fiona & Lauren
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The Epic Peregrination
... is pretty well taken care of and has already paid for himself.
The day after I picked up my new (old) car my mum arrived in Adelaide for the start of our 3½ week adventure. She had been traveling for aaaaages, so when I finally found her at the airport she looked exhausted but happy to see me. We had one full day in Adelaide so I took her on a bit of a 'show-and-tell’ of my daily life. We toured through the university, wandered around ...