Before I start with the future plans I need to just let you all know that I, Keli Barnes, actually did a bungee jump on Sunday 26th August... yes you read it right!!  What the hell?!  Bungee is one of the things that I swore I would NEVER do.. and yet I loved it.  What ever next.. spiders as pets??!?!  Ok, let's not go too fa...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 SUNNNNNNY!!!! What a relief! Today is the first day of the dive course and we started with the usual paperwork so that we don't sue the company if something happens to us! After getting to the training centre, we started doing our in-class theory. After lunch we had a medical exam to be sure that each person taking the...

Dagen efter Kristoffer og jg blev fyret fra kartoffelfarmen flyttede vi ind hos Sigurd. 3 mand paa et vaerelse naermest som paa hostel. Men noget billigere: 10 $ om dagen pr. mand. (Til sammenligning koster hostel mindst 17 $ pr dag.) Og her havde vi eget bad, koekken, stue og altan (ej at forglemme en vaskemaskine). Vi delte lejligheden med en ...

Salve! Gestern bin ich in Cairns an der Nordostkueste Australiens angekommen. Angenehmeres Klima hier als in Sinagpur, allerdings muss man tierisch mit Sonnenbrand aufpassen, Stichwort Ozonloch... Der Ort hier ist ein echtes Tourikaff, wenn das Riff und Cape Tribulation nicht waeren, gaebe es den Laden hier wohl gar nicht. Erinnert mich deswegen...

At last - no more flights for a while. Found myself a room for the night and then went off hunting for a live aboard diving trip. Unfortunately there weren't any Coral Sea diving trips till the following monday. So I booked myself on that without fail. So I had a few days to spare so I booked myself a sea kayaking trip followed by a whitewater r...

i swam with a whale!!! so amazingly cool, unbelievable! got back from my overnight boat trip a bit earlier and im still buzzing from spotting and swimming with a minke whale! how cool is that?? it was something that i really wanted to see ever since i've been out travelling. the one thing that would top off the experience perfectly and now its h...

We managed to get to Cairns eventually, thank God, bypassing all the disaster areas by simply flying over them. It was hot there and the remnants of the cyclone were still covering the sky with cloud and soaking us with rain. We stayed in a cute but noisy hostel, who picked us up from the airport and even told us that we could get out to the Gre...

Had a fantastic few days in Cape Tribulation, the wildlife was incredible after spending my birthday in a beach house we went to Crocodyllus another hostel in the rainforest. THe dorms were like huts surorunded by the jungle and consequently loads of wildlife! We were fortunate to see a Castawary bird, an endangered bird only really found in thi...

It was an early start for my 3 day 2 night trip out to the Great Barrier Reef. I went with ProDive on there 3 million dollar boat ScubaPro 2. The sea was rough going out and despite taking some seasickness pills I threw up along with quite a few other people. The trip included 11 dives and I signed up to do my PADI Advanced diving course, which ...

Got in just after midnight on the 4th ... very tired.  Needed bed ...