we stayed in Cairns for the extra week to do our Open water course, as we all passed the medical we were fine to go ahead! we spent the first 2 days in the swimming pool and classroom going through all the paperwork things. in the afternoon we got our first chance to go into the pool with all the scuba gear on, its actually quite heavy out of the water with it all. we spent the rest of the day going through the skill tests that we had to do to pass the course, th...

We flew into Cairns at 4.40am, theres a 2 hour time difference, but it didnt really affect us!, we got the city transfer bus to Gilligans, the hostel we were staying at, it was huge, by far the biggest hostel we have stayed in yet, there tv was a projection screen the size of the cinema! massive! When we got there we slept on the sofas as u cant check into the rooms until 2pm, we just chilled and caught up on our sleep for the rest of the day. next day we went do...