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well we are now in australia!! We spent our last morning in johannesburg in the apartheid museum, followed by a 12 hour flight and skipped 9 hours of english time to arrive at syney airport around 4pm! we dumped our stuff at the hostel got a cab, and decided to visit the sydney aquariom-which is really good! they have some impressive sharks, sting rays and turtle in there! after that we went on a short ferry ride to syney operah house going under the bridge. we got off and took a closer look but the pics will prob be quite rubbish as it was dark by then! we got ourselves a map and found our own way back to the hostel-we felt like propper tourists getting this giant map out all the time! we went to sleep around 11 and got up at 4 am :(. got to the airport far too early-apparently u only need to be there an hour before! was a 3 hr flight to cairns which went quickly and before we knew it we were at our next hostel! we arent far from night life and the sea so we spent our first day doing boring things like uploadind pics and buying a few essentials. We were goin to get dinner in town and we met a few girls wen waiting for the free shuttle there-they had a free meal voucher for a place called rhino bar if u bought a drink, so we were there! it turned out to be a funny night-its acrually quite a low quality bar/club but the locals wore dresses in there-so u could tell who was travelling and who wasnt! oh and austrailia has its fair share of wierdos which to be fair entertained us for the night! we headed home around 12-we had to be up this morn at 6.45 coz we booked snorkelling! we got a cruise ship to the barrier reef, and all the equipment, hopped in and enjoyed about 2 hours there followed by lunch-saw some really nice fish there and the corals were massive!we then went to our next destination 10mins away, on the way was saw hump back wales!! that was really exciting! one was practically waving at us for a while! we got in to a shallow part of the reef, me and claire got a bit stuck and went to far in so unfortunatly claire grazed her knee! we got out tho and during the rest of the snorkeling we found a turtle and swam with it for a while! that was also an awsoem experience! didnt see any nemos or sharks tho! :( got back and this eve we r being boring as tomorrow we are going to do the cape tribulation overnight stay in a rainforest! theres a zoo and a beach so a chance to see a few of the real aussie animals! xx
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