Sunday 11th October Pro-Dive 5day learn-to-dive course.After 8months of anticipation, the time to do my dive course FINALLY rolled around, and blessedly, my fears that I would have a cold or blockage or any other illness preventing me from doing it were not realised. I did actually feel very ill on the first day, awoke at dawn feeling sick and dizzy and it took two hours and a LOT of willpower to get dressed and ready and get outside for the dive-centre pick-up....

On the road again, up north towards Townsville, we passed through Bowen and Ayr and a few other farming/harvest work type places, any one of which I could have wound up stopping in to work. They are all pretty unremarkable though, although I earnt little money in Airlie, having the lagoon and beach to relax on definitely made my time there a lot more pleasant!We rocked up at Townsville at 11.30am. I was to spend the night with Philippa, a friend of Mama's from ba...

26th Sept. So, after a long (actually not so long, the time flew by) nine weeks in Airlie Beach, watching hoards of backpackers come and sail and leave, I finally got to go on my sailing trip round the Whitsundays, yay!! (Whitsundays so named as captain Cook landed on Pentecost Island (the highest one) on what he thought was Whitsunday. Actually, he got it wrong because he forgot to adjust the date when he crossed the date line in Tahiti, so they should rEALLY b...

12th Sept. SNORING. My roommate is a snorer. I don't know if you have ever shared a room with a snorer for any length of time, and I mean no disrespect to my dear friends that snore (I still love YOU guys) but attempting to share a bunkbed with someone that sounds like a warthog with a chest cold is less than relaxing and infact, may drive one to the point of insanity. I am certainly approaching that point. If snoring actually sounded like it does in cartoons,...

Sunday 6th September I am feeling ROUGH today. I went out with people from work last night after work, for my first proper night out sicne I've been in Airlie, and it was fun! We went to a few places, danced a bit, smoked etc. Drinks are WAY EXXIE, like $7 each so I supplemented with a couple of bottles of goon in my handbag.. I felt like a naughty teenager again, having a sneaky swig from my bottle in my bag. Anyways, I got drunk and it was fun but got sick! En...