Thursday 19th April Journal entry brought to you by Tami (reunited with the AWOL passport) Woke up this morning nice and early to catch our bus up to Mission Beach. I had to fanny around going to the post office, bus shelter, back to the post office and then back down in time to catch the bus to make sure I had my passport. When I definately had it, we boarded the bus and headed up to Mission. The journey passed without event. When we got there, a bloke called ...

Wednesday 18th April 2007 Journal brought to you by Sophie   Well we got up late and spent the whole day lazing around.  No joke.  We got up at about 11 (!), even the cleaners had been in at that point, and then had breakfast.  It was at this point Tami discovered someone had nicked her sunglasses.  I couldn?t believe it.  She is now actually on her millioneth pair.  It is so ridiculous.  We met Chris and his friend (eena???) and then w...

Tuesday 17th April Journal entry brought to you by (a very well fed) Tami. We woke up this morning at Caves Cove and had yet another delicious meal. Breakfast was cereal, toast, fresh fruit salad, tea, coffee and squash. Sophie and I have honestly not eaten so well since leaving England. After breakfast we were given the opportunity to do some more snorkeling over the reef, Sophie went in. I however had woken up in the night with intensely bad leg cramp and dec...

Monday 16th April 2007 Journal brought to you by Sophie   Today we were woken bright and early by the captain at 6am.  I had had the best night?s sleep in a long long time.  It was so good!  Breakfast consisted of toast and cereal and it was yum.  We all got ready in record time and then were shipped over to Whitehaven Island in a little dingy.  We walked up to the look out point and got some absolutely outstanding views of the surrounding is...

Sunday 15th AprilJournal entry brought to you by (a sleepy but contented) TamiHaving just got off the night bus at 6am in Airlie Beach, we were all (understandably) exhausted. Except Sophie who for some reason managed to sleep really well. We were with James and Louise who were also catching the Habibi that day. James rang the hostel to see if there was a pick up bus and was told that it was just around the corner so we could walk. Twenty minutes later, and absol...