We arrived today on magnetic island from airlie beach. It is beautiful and really hot and sunny which is great. Here everyone drives around in little cars that look like barbie cars. we aren't 21 so we will just have to make do with scooters. We have just done an amazing whitsundays sailing trip on a three week old boat called wings 3! It was amazing sailing around the beautiful area on our big boat with a hot tub! It was also my birthday i had such a good time doing a dive and getting to stroke a huge fish called george and posing with a sea cucumber. i did three dives and saw a shark on the last one which was really good. the weather was great and the crew and everyone on the boat were lovely especially the hosties who cooked our food and were lots of fun. It was brilliant being the birthday girl! Josie and molly also made me a cake from a pile of yummy tim tam biscuits that we all love over here. it had candles and everything. off the side of the boat there were always lots of fish and the first night we saw a big fish eat a little one. molly and i also did some feeding of really huge bat fish of the side by putting peanut butter on our big toe and dipping it in so the fish would come and suck it off. it was brilliant. The food on the boat was amazing. we haven't eaten that well in a long time. it was lots of pasta and greek salads and tuna and cake and even bbq chicken and steak and so much more.

we only have six weeks of our trip left! I'm already thinking of what to do on my next one.

xxx elspeth xxx