we travelled all day today on the bus, luckliy it was the first to get through the flood waters as it had been raining heavily. we thought we might get stuck in mission but we dnt. we got all the way through to airlie. the people the day b4 wernt so lucky. bek n jim managed to get through up north on a bus which had to turn round! we stayed at koalas which was our free night. the dorms were well expensive! so we moved down the road and got a double for the sa...

heya! today we went RAFTING!!!!!! it was fantastic. other than the 5am start to get the bus to take us 2hours south to the Tully river we had an amzing day. we woke up with free tea n coffee and then got the bus with loads of japanese people (who the trip is promoted 2 as they have japanese guides aswell) we got there and put on our life jackets and helmets (sexy)and then made our way down to the boats. in our boat was a stunning sweedish couple and a chav...

today was the day of our Great Barrier Reef trip. yet another early start saw us get up n get there by 7.45!!! (this travellin isnt all fun n games lol) we boarded our small boat n went through the safety procedures. the weather was fantastic on the reef, everything was so clear! after an thoroughly enjoyable journey we arrived at the reef. beki had opted to do a introductory dive at an extra cost (still very cheap) whilst steve stuck to good ole snorkl...

once agian we are back in cairns woken up by a fire alarm in the hostel at 5.55am... lovely though did get to see some firemen! oh what absolute joy...after a lie in went and did our jobs and sorted our tours out. hopefully tomoz we ill be ok as we are going on the reef. beki will do an intro dive and it will only be $26 as they have a special on! yay. sent another package home today with some goodies in though its really expensive so it went by sea mail. hopefu...

we went on our trip to cape tribulation which started very early ( 7.30am) and after an hour of going round picking everyone up we finally set out from cairns to cape trib. we headed up into the rainforest stopping at some wonderful lookouts along the way. we had a senic coastal drive and then a river sruise on the daintree river looking for crocs! we saw a babyone which could have been a trig and was to voth of us untill it was pointed out properly. then...