Hello everyone! Sorry I haven't written in a while, thought i'd wait for a bit so now i've got even more to write!

So since the last time i wrote, which was just after i went to fraser island I have done loads! I got up to 1770 which was very small but a really nice little place and the people there were so friendly. The weather was really good and the first day i was there i had a surfing lesson!! It was really fun and suprisingly i was actually quite good at it! Managed to stand up and everything!! The next day I decided to go out onto the barrier reef, so i booked the boat trip, but they took your money but what they didn't tell u that the boat trip would be a ridiculously rough hour and a half trip, so i was a bit sick!! But when we got there it was beautiful, was a island called lady musgrove island and we got off the boat (thank god!) and went onto the island for a bit. I then did a dive on the great barrier reef...was really good, but i nearly didn't do it cause i got scared when i first went under the water, and then again when my ears started to pop! But i got over it and went down, but i was clinging on to the instructor the whole time and he basically dragged me along! But i'm really glad i did it and i saw lots of stuff, loads of pretty fish, nemo fish! Also starfish and a turtle!! After the dive also had time to go snorkelling which was good and less scary than diving and thankfully the boat trip back wasn't as rough!!

After 1770 i headed up to airlie beach which is the gateway to the whitsunday islands. I had 3 days in airlie beach before i went on the boat trip to the islands, which was 3 days and 2 nights, but i booked a boat were u slept on one of the islands and not on the boat as didn't want to repeat my last boat trip! The 3 days before were gorgeous and i spent them sunbathing by the lagoon, but then on the night before i was going to the whitsundays i woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning to it raining...really hard...and then it didn't stop for 2 days!! So it was a bit of a shame that it was raining on my trip but i still had a great time and met some really cool people and we got to go snorkelling and went to whitehaven beach (which is if u ever see pictures of the whitsundays it will be that beach) and the last day was nice and sunny too so that was good.

After airlie i headed up to magnetic island, which was luckily nice and sunny again! There isn't much to do on the island but it is a nice chilled out place. I did go to a koala sanctuary there though, were i got to cuddle a koala, which was really cute, i wanted to keep him!! I also held a snake and a crocodile!! I will put pics up here soon of that! I didn't really want to hold the snake but the lady just put it round my neck so i didn't have much choice!!

I went to mission beach after that, but there really wasn't much there so only stayed a night and now i am in my final stop in oz, cairns. It is wet season up here so the last 3 days it has been raining so theres not a great deal to do, but luckily today it has brightened up a bit, i am doing another trip up to cape tribulation on friday before i leave.

I decided to leave oz a bit earlier and go to fiji!! So on sun morning i fly into nadi, where i am meeting up with lauren and rich again, so i can't wait to see them! I didn't originally plan to go to fiji, but i thought what the hell i am so close i may as well go! And plus the fact that i get to spend 10 days with lauren really made up my mind as although i am meeting loads of nice people it will be good to spend time with some close friends.

Then i get to new zealand a few days early as well, i get there on the 26th of feb now. Am really looking forward to new zealand now as although i've loved oz it will be nice to have a bit of a change!

As i said i will try and put up some pics soon, especially one of me holding the croc, especially for u dad!!

lots of love Laura

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