we're in austrailia!!!!!! you would expect the sun to be shinig but it wasnt it was rainin, now its shining ahh get to top up the tan! neways so we arrived in cairns and what a lovelycity it is, we booked into a girls hostel which is by fer the cleanest we've been in! finally we get to eat home food and get to cook it, also they have pavalova but havent been able to try it yet as its way too expensive and iv put on alot of beef. so we giot here early morning and went for a little nap, once we woke we booked a trip to cape tribunation, which was a rainforest, we spent a whole day there looking at snakes spiders, kangaroos and wallabys. then we went crocodile hunting and guess who seen the first and only croc spotted by a tourist on our boat???? me victoria! im the uk's best croc hunter now!!! too bad we dont get them., neways coz the rain had been so bad there was alot of land slides and our driver thought it would be funny to tellus a few horror stories, saying how we would be stuck here for a week coz off them, thankfullly we werent he decided to drive through the land slide!!!! ha (seriously). so we got home went to bed early as we were very tired, the next day shell got up to go scuba diving, heres her story.....

SORRY its taken so long to get here but here is my bit.................:) Yes so the next day i did indeed go diving and was actually doing my Advanced Dive course - cos I want the chance to go deeper - there are so many good places here plus Jay dives deep so i can tag long with him when i get the chance. My first day was really nice - three great dive but i didn't get to see too much stuff considering i was on the GReat Barrier Reef. - Anyways as first days go the course was great. The boat was really well orientated for diving and everythign ran smoothly. my second day was better though :) My first dive of the day was with Dan one of the instuctors - he found me lots of great stuff - sting rays, Amazing coral - trout (massive) grouper -no shraks but he did find me one ............TURTLE :) WHOOP i was well excited. We swam along side it for ages and the turtle wasn't a bit miffed that we were there. We tired to feed it but he wasn't bothered - he felt tough and he moved through the water with so little effort - nibbling on the reef every so often!! We found some giant clams to - and when your wave your hand over the top of them or touch it - it reacts by closing over - this made me jump -which then made me smile - whihc in turn flooded my mask - cos there is just soime stuff you can't do under water!!! :) My final dive was amazing and at times i even had to remind myself that i was in the water - it was so amazing clear. The sun was shinning so brightly - the coral was transformed!! MAN................you just had to be there!!! I'm not an ADVANCED DIVER. POP POP

Mish xoxx