We arrived early in the morning just after sunrise and we were picked up by a slightly arrogant topless, shoeless aussie. Despite the rain we must have brought over from Japan it was still really warm so we went for a board walk through the rainforest. The next day we walked along the seafront...unfortunately we couldnt cool off in the sea as th...

Early, early wake up time (6:00) for our transfer to Port Douglas where we boarded the Silver Sonic catamaran. Guess what? It was raining..yep, like Traci said "that's what we get for coming to the tropics during the wet season!" The wet weather makes the water choppy and bottom line, it just is not as fun when it is raining while you are out on...

Day 3 - Reef Encounter Another 06:00 "wake up scuba time"... but, only 3 more dives and will be fully cerifited open water divers!!! We were up last night completeing the written test... Everyone (including the boys) passed the written test... to pass they had to have over 90%... During the first dive of the day we were all tested on the various...

Heloooooouuuu! Var i Cairns kl 9 mandag aften. Havde booket nat paa The Serpent, ''smaa'' 3 kilometer uden for byen! Det er saa typisk! Fandt frem til dorm, tog toej paa der ikke stank af sved, og gik ned for at tage hostel-bus ind til by! Sad paa greasset paa hostel inden bus, for at faa en aaaahhh-oel. Fik snakket med en franskmand. Kom til by...

Hey! Sorry we didn't write yesterday but we got in too late off our bus and they were all closed. Apparently 7pm is too late in Townsville . . everything was closed including their gas station, so we had trouble finding a good meal. Now you're probably picturing Townsville as a little town, but it's really not. There are 150,000 people there! Wh...

Hi Everyone, I was so nervous to go white water rafting for the first time but it was a blast. I don't have much time to write because there are a million people waiting for the computer. Love, M New comments: I have a little more time to write today. I'm getting ready to head off to Brisbane in a couple hours. I have more photos of the Rafting ...

Sad to leave Bali, but excited to see another country, I am now in Cairns, Australia. I'll spend the next 2 weeks exploring Cairns and the surrounding areas. It's bizzare being here after 2 years of travelling in mostly developing countries...Australia is a shock...so many white people, everything is so clean, everything is so expensive, everyon...

From the airport in Cairns, I gave our easy-going taxi driver grief over my overly large and heavy luggage. "What do you have in here, your boyfriends?!" (Why does everyone keep asking me that?!) He dropped us off at yes, the YHA. There's actually two in Cairns, and we ended up in the one that's a 15-minute walk from the town center. At first, w...

Well, I did it. I scuba dived! I said I wouldn't right up till boarding the boat, but the guy could tell I was terrified but not totally convinced. So he literally held my hand through the 6 metre depths, and I had a great time. No sharks, no snakes, no worries. Just fish and coral and anemones, and yes -- we did find Nemo. My only responsibilit...

Got up and dressed, and repacked in time for my check-out. Had lots of errands to do, so I went to the Cairns Central shopping centre to pick up my spectacles and buy some things for Jane in Tokyo. Then did some more errands around the city centre, which is much smaller than I had expected. I thought it would be like Brisbane which is all shiny ...