8/1/06 This was my birhtday and it was really wierd waking up to warm weather and also being away from home, family and friends! However, I was gonna have a wonderful day! This morning we were heading for the Great Barrier Reef and we had to go back to Shute's Harbour and then take a bigger boat to the Reef! The ride out to the reef took about 2 hours and it was really choppy and loads of the kids on t he boat were sick! When we arrived the sea b...

7/1/06 Woke up at 4.30am to get ready for a 6am check-out! We were on our way to the Whitsunday Islands. Once on the coach we headed south towards Townsville where we stopped for breakfast. Between Townsville and Airlie beach where we were going to catch the ferry to Long Island we all had to introduce ourselves and we had to answer loads of embarrassing questions! Once at Airlei Beach we had to drop off some of our group cos they were going...

3/1/06 This is the day we arrived and it was a long flight of 21 hours! The first thing we did was nearly get arrested as we had fruit in our bags and ur not allowed to bring nything like that in2 the country! Ironically it was given to us by Qantas their own airline! Anyway we headed for our resort and as it was 6am we couldnt check in so we had breakfast and had showers in their hospitality lounge and then did the only thing women can do when they ...