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So we spent afew days in Singapore shopping and eating no other way to do it really. But we completed our time there by donig the Singapore sling in Raffles with the peanut throwing as always, the bill was pretty insane it was $90 for x3 slings nice ha.
So we flew to Darwin first, then our connecting flight was delayed by 2 hours. We got talking to these girls from Yorkshire who were really sweet had a laugh about Malaysia and Thailand as they had just come from there! We reached Gilligans and decided to do the great barrier reef tour the next day. We had to book our sky dive for friday two days after we arrived as it was the only day with good weather, it took some persuasion as Tash wasn't sure if she could do it! I wasn't nervous for some reason, i get nervous closer to the time!
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
So we did the great barrier reef thursday, the boat journey was cool i love boats, gem doesn't like boats so much wasn't helped by this girl throwing up into a bag oh dear! Anyway we got into are gear and headed out onto the reef i couldn't belive what was beneath us, the fish were right there, some amazing colours. You couldn't turn around apart from in deep parts, cause if you did you'd hit your knees on the coral which i experienced, although some of the coral was really soft and my knee got submerged by soem of it! I'm not a fan of snorkling made my jaw hurt. We spent ages trying to get good shots with our underwater camera some of them turned out alright. Wish i had dived though you can still see loads. The crew were really cool love the ausies they seem so chilled out. We had a picture with the crew at the end.
SKY DIVE
The day of the skydive arrgh! Strangly still wasn't nervous really weird was waiting to be but wasn't. We had a 2 hour journey to Mission beach from Cairns then we had to wait for a couple of hours had a demonstration about how to arch our backs when we are hanging out the plane and about having our legs under the edge of the plane. I had Klem who had done about 2000 jumps which was comforting lol. He was a bit nuts though. We paid to have it filmed, didn't think i would be camera shy turns out i am lol. So we got the harness on and headed to the plan another 20min journey still wasn't that nervous. Untill i saw the plane, theres something about small planes that freak me out a little, they don't look stable. So i didn't enjoy the take of thats when i first experienced the nerves and we were all squashed into a small space. I was fine after the plane was in the air again the nerves seemed to go away. I worked out Gem was going first, not hard she was but the door! I was third, Tash forth which i quite liked halfway, as there was seven of us. Seeing gem go was crazy, you didn't have time to be scared as you were out! The first few seconds were a bit crazy it was a minutes freefall then he spun us in circles and opened the first parachute. I missed the view out of the plane as we were going out as you have to have your head back, was so amazing though the whole experience the view was unreal, Klem let me fly the parachute which was risky you have to be pretty stronge to stear it so we didn't go very far when i was flying it! lol Landing on the beach was pretty cool, got to see tash land. Couldn't belive i had just done it, would recomend it to anyone. The bonus was i got to take Monkey abs gave me Klem straped him in haha! Watching the video back its not the best i've ever looked but we saw some other videos and they actually looked much worse! I looked terrified but i was just so shocked and your mouth gets so dry ! Was one of the most amazing things i've ever done was well worth it! Love Oz Land
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Brian and Pat you brave girl! Sounds like you are having a great time.Really looking forward to seeing your photos when you return. Will cook you a special dinner. There,s a place in Fleet you can buy kangaroo! love from us