Right then . gonna try really hard to write well as i have just realised how appalling my typing is!

so anyway. went white water rafting down the tully river in australia yesterday (sunday) it was amazing. its mainly a grade 4 river which is apparently quite hard. its so much fun. got absolutely soaked and stuff but definitely worth it for sure! we were picked up at 8 from our hostel. then drove all the way up to the start of the river (well hte bit we could access) our group was good too, there was me and dave, and nigel and mary, then there was a girl called becky who mary knew and two other poeple - sam and beth i� think. our instructor was called zoe and she was cool too. were shown some basic instructions and postitions and set off. mum will be pleased to know there was loads of safety involved. there were 4 rafts i think and 8 instructors and all down the rapid sections there were people ready to help if anything went wrong. not even hard workactually - coz your on moving water. scary at times tho! proper beautiful as well which was good. no camera tho as it would have been wrecked - its ok tho coz ive bought pictures and a dvd. to remember stuff. :) they gave us bbq for lunch which was good. also free meal - every little counts when your a backpacker! what was quite funny is that - on one of the rapids - we messed up collossally and ended up being dragged down it without the boat - all of us! really bad. funny to look at afterwards though. could have been quite serious but it wasnt - luckily just bruising! came off the water about 3 ish. really really good day out and well worth the money. got to cairns last night. pretty much went straight to bed. im so sad! today ive booked some diving on the reef for tomorrow - i figured you cant not really. ium only going to do it once. so thats the plan for my last day in oz and then on wednesday i fly to singapore. ill let you kow how the diving went on. bye! xxxxxxxxxx