Hello everyone, hope your all well. We have had a great week in Cairns and we are now certified divers!! We learnt to dive on a 5 day course with pro dive. The first 2 days we spent in the classroom and the pool, we were quite lucky and had a really nice small group including a canadian girl called susie,, a really funny irish guy called daniel, an austrian couple, Ivan a danish guy and Hanz from Germany who was doing his dive master course. Training in the pool ...

Well we arrived in Cairns yesterday after an early start, we left the hostel at 2 .30 in the morning. We couldnt check in at Gilligans until 2pm so we decided to take a trip to Kuranda which is a village up in the rainforest near Cairns. We travelled up to the village on the skyrail which is a bubble lift like in the alps that takes you up over the rainforest canopy for about 45 minutes. It was a really breathtaking journey despite all the clouds and rain, we saw...