Friday 5th September - I woke up this morning and felt like the luckiest person in the world! The sun was shining, I was on an island in the Whisundays and I was about to spend another day on the boat and snorkelling in the sea... We were given a lay-in this morning until 07:30, with breakfast being served at 08:00. I had a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea. We made our way down to the dock to be collected and took a two hour cruise to Hook island (another islan...

Thursday 4th September - Breakfast on Thursday morning was served in the restaurant at 06:30! We had half an hour to get down to breakfast, eat, grab our things for the day and make our way to the end of the dock where we were to board the boat. As you can imagine, there were alot of sick people and some didnt even make it down to breakfast! The weather wasnt great, actually is was raining and overcast. The forecast for the rest of the day wasnt changing, but i...

Wednesday 3rd September - I left my bag with Koala Backpackers (the group who booked the Whitsunday tour for me) and had to pay $6 for the three days that the rucksack and small hand held bag would be in storage for. I walked over to 'Moroccos' bar where we were meeting everyone who was going on the tour with us, as well as the deckhand 'Jangles', who was to look after us for the entire trip. She took a role (felt like we were at school again) and were then to...

Im not exactly in the Whitsundays yet, but I wanted to leave a message on here, from the Whitsundays, so that it is printed in my travel blog book! I met my new dorm mates last night, I was sharing a dorm with two girls from America - Darcy and Katie, and a german guy. They were all really nice, although I only had chance to speak to them briefly before getting into bed. I walked down to the beach as it was getting dark and took a long walk around the bay (abou...