p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/22/10 Early wake up this morning since I had to catch a bus at 7:45 am to Townsville which is located 6 hours south of Cairns by Greyhound bus. I found out the previous night that my roommate Guedo from Switzerland was also going on the same bus even though he would be on the bus twice as long as me to get to his destination. This was nice since I slept a bit easier knowing that the chances of us both over sleeping and missin...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/21/10 5:45 am wake up call and dive briefing, somehow between the time it took me after hearing the knock on my door and going to the bathroom and brushing my teeth I missed the quick dive briefing. Not a very big deal since we had dove this site before and my buddies had heard the directions. This dive was a bit different since James wife Julie decided to join as his buddy for this dive up to this point all her diving has been...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/20/10 5:45 am wake up call for the morning dive. I was afraid I was going to oversleep and I had stashed away my watch somewhere in my pack and could not find it. I woke up and the sun was shinning in my room and I did a look out the window to see if I could see scuba divers surfacing or getting ready to descend. I saw no one and then I turned on the TV hoping that the morning show or the TV might show the time.... no luck. I the...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/19/10 7:45 am van picked me up at the hostel and brought me to the dive shop to pay for my taxes and such and so they could check my open water dive card certification 8:15 am I was off in another van to the day ship to go out and dive, all the equipment was on the boat that we would need. The day boat was quite full but a lot of the people were snorkelers or just doing a couple of day dives on this boat. 9 am The day boa...

11/18/10 Not too much exciting or eventful happened today since it was mainly a travel day. I checked out this morning and then took the train back to Sydney and then caught a plane to Cairns. Everything went fairly smoothly and I arrived at my hostel and I straight away went to book a dive trip. I leave in the morning for a 3 day two night dive trip on a live aboard boat. It should be fun and I am also going to get my next level of Scuba Certification done ...