Wednesday 9th January The day to check out to catch the bus to our next stop, Mission Beach. We weren't happy as the weather was beautiful with clear and blue sky! We wished that it was like that for yesterday's snorkelling. Oh well, we can't control the weather! Before we made our way to the Greyhound Bus Terminal, We stopped by to use the internet that was given to us for free by the travel agency. Then we dragged ourselves to the waiting room as we were ve...

Tuesday 8th January We had to get up at 6am to prepare to walk to the Harbour to check in at 7.30am. It was still terrible weather with rain pouring down. We were afraid that we would not be able to see well in the sea. It wasn't how we picture to be snorkelling in the sea. We were hoping for the sun to be shining through to make the sea absolutely gorgeous and blue to swim in. The staff at the check in said that the trip was still going ahead, despite the weath...

Monday 7th January Up early for the 8.25am pick up to take us to the Skyrail. We were really dissapointed with the weather as it was raining with clouds everywhere. We knew that we wouldn't be able to see the rainforest very well from the height in Skyrail. However it was a good job that we took the scenic flight yesterday when the weather was decent for us to view the reef from the top! We took the Skyrail at 9.45am and made our way to the next station called...

Sunday 6th January Today was our first day of the activities that we have booked. It was the 45mins scenic flight over the Great Barrier Reef. we were worried about the weather condition cos we found out that there was meant to be thunderstorms and that it may be cancelled. Our flight was scheduled for 11am so we got the courtesy shuttle from the hostel to take us to their other hostel. For that, it was nearer to the airport so it would save us money on taxi far...

Saturday 5th January Finally we managed to get up in very good time cos we had plenty of light shining through unlike our room we had in Collaroy! We had a very good night sleep with the air conditioning going. Once we got out of our room, we were hitted by the humidity as it was so high and definately very hot!We started to plan what we wanted to do in Cairns so we looked at the hostel's travel desk to give us some ideas and we had discount vouchers from the tr...