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G'Day! How you going mate! I thin I've found the sun!!! My god I'm already getting burned factor 30+ just ain't cutting it. So I flew into Cairns four days ago I think, I'm having trouble keeping up with myself these days. I took a boat trip out to the great barrier reef and went snorkeling with my crazy new friend from California. It was pretty amazing I have to say, the fish were incredible you could touch them if you wanted but I thought knowing my luck I would get bitten and that wouldn't be so much fun oh no. then after a 'tropical lunch' of cabbage with salad cream and greasy chicken legs, I'm not sure what the tropical part was but there you go anyway I got to go out diving through the coral. My first ever dive trip, I was very excited. I think we only went down about 3 meters but hey, I didn't care. The size of the clams at the bottom of the ocean were humongous! I was tempted to but my hand into one just because they were open and inviting but then I saw a reef shark and decided I would just stay close to my guide and not get too close to anything else. So there you go another first for me. Then it was back on the road in our little bus that only holds about 20 people and has a trailer on the back for our luggage, it's hilarious. I sat up front with the driver because I noticed it had the most leg room and the best view. Hey it's a long drive to anywhere in Oz you know. It's the only place apart from Wyoming and Kansas when I was younger where you can drive for hours and not see a thing. I got excited every time I saw another car, the driver was amused by me. We stopped of at a 'Croc Farm' somewhere in Queensland and I got to see real live Croc's being fed their breakfast. They all had names like Nick and Mary as the keeper doing a rather good Steve Irwin impression threw them very smelly rotting raw turkeys. He thought it was hilarious to encourage the crocks to come through the doors of the gates to catch their bit of turkey. I didn't know weather to run for safety or to try an avoid the flying bits of blood as the turkey went flying up into the air. I figured they had done this hundreds of times before so they knew what they were doing. Then one of the keepers went in and sat on top of one of the big b*****s put his hat on it's head and asked quite comfortably took questions from us while doing so. These Aussies are mad!Then on to feed the kangaroos and pet the snakes and lizards, as you do. Anyway just as I thought I was cursing along in Oz without too many worries, we all got back in the bus and yes, that trailer carrying our suitcases snapped off as we were puling out on to the road. I hoped it wasn't the weight of my ever growing suitcase. I'm a bit confused how it is heavier than when I left and I've off loaded so much stuff. Strange. Anyway to cut the long story short we were stuck at the farm for another two hours while the police and the mechanics did whatever it was they were doing. It was hilarious to see lots of pasty English people sat on the grass outside a Crock farm going ever lobster in the mid day sun. I offered an American girl some of my unreliable factor 30+ but she told me she was working on her base tan, she looked like a commercial for skin cancer to me but there you go. So we made it out alive the keeper kept us busy by throwing snakes at us and getting us to watch a black carpet python digest a live door mouse, whole! Then we were off. Spent the night on Magnetic Island I still haven't found out why it's called that and now I'm in Airlie Beach waiting to catch a sailing boat or was a Pirate Ship I can't remember, all I know is its called the ……. Actually I don't remember that either but I'm spending two night s at sea on it sailing the world famous Whit Sundays. I've looked at some postcards and it looks beautiful so will be back to tell you all about it soon.
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