unfortunately we didnt manage to make it to the champagene falls on the first day as we were running a bit late! we did however manage to find and make it to our campsite for the night at Guruman. we had an awseome bbq for dinner, before having an early night. we got up at 6am the next day so that we could get the tents down and the car packed ready to make it to champagene falls and indian head. howver it wasnt that succesful as we managed to get the car stuck...

the first stope after Cairns was Mission Beach, we stayed at a hostel called the tree house, which was pretty cool, in the middle of no where, with no shops, but still fun! we only stopped there for the night to break the journey up going to Townsville. we only stayed there for the night again though as we were cathcing the ferry over to Magnetic Island early the next morning. we satyed over on the island foir 3 dyas. there wasnt really much to do over there, we ...

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...

So we arrived in Perth where we were met at the airport by Joan and Teagan, ( Aunt and Cousin!) Lucy and I were both really tired as we didnt get much sleep on the plane, and we had to adjust to the 6 hour time difference! That day we went round to Gran and Grandads for lunch, where we met up with Jim, Bernie, Jen and Rhiannon (cousins). it was Easter sunday, so we were really happy when we got some easter eggs!!! lol We went for a drive the day after down to...