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Hi.
Arrivec In Cairns for a four day stay. Stayed in a fantasic looking backpackers which was more like a resort and had waterfalls, beauty therapits, hairdressers. Cairns is a great place but so touristy- there is only restaurants and travel agents all trying to compete to get your money. I shopped around for a couple of days but no one seemed that botherec about finding me a trip to the barrier reef that would suit me. Then, one day I was walking through a shopping centre where I came across a lady sitting in a tiny booth- so I thought I would ask her opinion. The service was fantastic and she spent hours with me organisuing my bus ticket, booking me on a snorkelling trip on the barrier reef and booking me on a sailing and 4x4 trip (Il come to that later)
So, the next day at 8.30am I headed down to Cairns marina to catch my boat, sort of expecting it to be down horrible trawler type thing- I was wrong. It was a very flashy, huge, new boat that fits 50 people. There were 4 toilets and showers and a seating area with actual sofas (not those horrioble plastic chairs) We even got lunch consisting of different meatsm, cheeses, potato salad, pasta, fruit, salads and drinks- it was fantastic (All of 50 pounds)
Once we got out to the barrier reef is was raining but that didnt matter because we would be in the water anyway. I was supposed to be doing an introductory dive but because I have ear problems they didnt want to risk it so I just did sorkelling, which I was gutted about- but I shouldnt have been!
We were given wet suits and flippers and told to just go off and do what you like. I saw fish that you see in Aquariums (blue, red, green, yellow fish) I saw fish bigger than the top half of my body. At first it was quite scary because you were swimming next to these huge turtles and fish which can bite, but after a couole of minutes, I was fine. It was amazing but sad to see so much of the coral dead. Apparently it will only live for another 20 years- so I guess my children will never see it!
It was an amazing day and even though I didnt get to dive I got to swim with a baby shark and huge fish and nemos (from the film) it was amazing.
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