After a 3 hour flight from Darwin I arrived in Bali at the Denpasar Airport 6am local time feeling tired and unsure of what to expect. I exited the airport where I was hounded by a host of taxi drivers asking where I wanted to go. Being tired I wasn't ready for this barrage nor in the mood but I decided to take them on anyway. Obviously I needed to get to my hotel in Ubud and I'd read it should cost around 200,000RP so when they started at 800,000RP I laughed a...

Arrived to a warm Cairns on Thursday evening having left Mission Beach just a few hours earlier. We checked in at the Waterfront hostel and went straight to the Woolshed Bar & Grill for some food. We chilled at the hostel for the remainder of the night feeling tired from the early morning start we had for white water rafting. With decision time on my mind I didn't have the best of nights sleep but I woke up aiming to sort it out. I spent most of the day pon...

We arrived at Mission Beach on Monday afternoon at 3.45pm where we did a bit of food shopping before checking into the family run hostel we had booked. The owners knew we were there for the white water rafting and skydive like the majority of people who come to visit Mission Beach. Knowing this the owners made us aware of the predicted forecast for the week.. sunny on Tuesday and cloudy on Wednesday. We had booked white water rafting for Tuesday and the skydive...

Wednesday morning saw us catch the bus from Airlie Beach to Townsville. I slept for the whole 3 hour journey because I hardly got any sleep the previous night due to the drunk Irish boys I was sharing my hostel room with. Anyway, we arrived at the ferry crossing which would be taking us over to Magnetic Island. We had an hour or so to wait so we went for a wander and bought a sandwich from Subway for our dinner. We boarded the ferry around 1pm which took us ov...

With three days remaining in Airlie Beach we were hoping for some nice weather and luckily that's what we got.. well we did on Monday and Tuesday. We had to be up relatively early on Sunday as we had a diving medical booked for 10.30am at the doctors. This was necessary for us to take part in the Open Water Dive Course we are booked onto this Thursday in Magnetic Island. Still feeling a little ropey and tired from the previous night we made our way down to the ...