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hiiiiiii guys!!!!!!
We have got our campervan and have already travelled down to townsville (this is where we are at the moment)
On Friday 29th we left cold Adelaide and caught a flight to sunny Cairns :) wooop wooop - even though SJ's tan had gone from the 3 cold weeks in Adelaide, we can tell there will be plenty of tanning action (for us both haha) here!! We stayed over night in a small place as we arrived to late to pick up our van... we were sooo excited to get on with travelling again! We woke up quite early and got a taxi to the place we were hiring the van from... once we were shown the van blah blah and all the other boring stuff we headed straight to port douglas (about 1 hour from cairns) the roads were crazy and the views beautiful - we stopped numerous times as we became more snap happy with the beauty in front of us! When we got to port douglas we walked along the 4 mile beach which was soo nice! (not the whole 4 miles haha) We headed back to cairns to find our caravan site after getting some food shopping for our little home for 2 weeks!
We had an early night as we had a big day in front of us... snorkelling at the great barrier reef!!!! There was a bit of drama at the start of the day with the pick up not turning up and us having to bomb it an hour back to port douglas to catch the boat before it left haha! When we arrived we were briefed etc and headed to our first stop on the day! took us quite awhile to get there - seemed over an hour, we sat right at the front of the boat and got rather drenched - you could just see ocean for miles - amazing! The sea was a stunning colour!! The first stop off we swam where we wanted, saw lots of colourful fish and tons of nemos woooo!! The second site we had a guided tour from one of the guys who worked there - was sooo interesting and better than going it along we felt... he brought up this starfish and let us all hold it - it felt like stone was so weird! he brought up some other animals and taught us about the coral in general - we were pretty knackered as we swam for quite a bit - after this we had some munch and headed to our 3rd site where we.... swam with turtles!!!!!!!! this was sooooooo sooooooo cool! We bought a 'CD of the day' which someone was snapping photos all through the day under the sea aswel as on the boat - hopefully there will be some good ones as we havnt looked at them yet! haha! (our langkawi ones came out poo so we thought we would leave it to the pros hehe) On our way back we decided to sit at the front of the boat again but it was like having a shower - we were getting so so so wet - we decided to sit inside (by srambling over the side opf the boat while holding on for dear life!!) Once inside was a bit gay as Morgan was poorley sea sick again :( boats just dont agree with us haha!
When we arrived back to our campsite, we showered and went to meet nat and nick from uni - we had some munch and a catch up - was cool to swap travelling stories and see some familiar faces!! :)
Today we decided that we were going to head to townsville via mission beach! On our way we saw a sign for a world heritage thingy - josephine falls we detoured about half an hour and found it - was like a nature trail and we headed on through the woods..... sooo worth it - the view and waterfall was amazing - bit scary as we were walking through as there was lots of signs saying 'warning death and accidents have occured here!!!' We snapped a few pictures and headed back through the woods to our van!
An hour or so later we arrived at mission beach - lovely place - very quiet - took a few pics and had some lunch and were back on our way to townsville! Again there were lovely views on our way so we stopped a few times hehe!! We arrived in Townsville about 3 hours after we had left mission beach! We are looking into what there is to do around here before setting off on our adventure again :) off down to the whitsunday islands tomorrow!
Thats about it so far.... we have just had a phone call and our great barrier reef pics never got ripped to the CD correctly so they are getting sent back to our home address - so they wont be on for a few more months and we will be home by then - gay times!!! ahh well hope you enjoy the other pics guys!!
Lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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