Our flight to Oz was pretty epic. Richard cliff and the shadows were on our plane!! Ended up sitting next to one of the technicians who also looked after the lead guitarist and had a bit of a jibber with him :) the plane food was substantially better than the food we had on our flight to NZ! We even had a chocolate and coconut ice cream :P

Thursday 4th

The weather was sooooo hot and humid just typical that the day we set aside to sort ourselves out and trek around town it's 44 degress! started the day with a shop in the supermarket...managed to whack my gammy toe which then bled everywhere (it might as well have been chopped off!) The first aid lady eneded up coming to sort me out and put a plaster on it :)...not before prodding it REALLY hard might i add!! Got our
Oz sim card sorted too after having to walk back and forth to our hostel as we needed our passports to buy one?!?!! Was not impressed. spent the afternoon by the lagoon though which was totally LUSH. We also booked our great barrier reef and cape tribulation trips for the weekend :D

On saturday we had an early start as we were off to the GBR :D The morning began with filling out health and safety sheets but we were given muffins so it wasnt too painful :P It took about and hour and a half to get out to the 1st reef. We had to put on the most attractive sting suits ever..its jellyfish season!! Basically there are lycra blue suits that cover you head to toe. There's even hand mittens and a hood. Looked like a total dumpy smurf, paired with flippers and a snorkel mask..not a good look! Started off holding onto the "retard ring" as i appropriately named it..It's for the less confident swimmers :P The coral was awesome and saw some nemo fishhh :D Also touched a clam!!

Had a BBQ for lunch which was scrummy. Our second snorkel was just as good got to stoke a MASSIVE fish...can't remeber wht it was called but it was HUGE and really friendly...felt like a dolphin! Saw lots of jellyfish (luckily the non deadly type) but i still managed to have a mini panic attack in the water and make a total baffoooon out of myself!

Had another early start on the sunday as we headed to cape tribulation! Our first stop was at the animal sanctuary. got to see a koala and kangeroos :D We then headed up to cape tribualtion beach for some lunch. Saw some massive, creepy, horrible spiders :( Has a couple of bush walks through the rainforest on the way back. Our final stop was at a crocodile river cruise. Got to see a couple of big crocs :D Leave for Magnetic island tomorrow!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx