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Just like home...
This made me smile when I went to start cooking at my new hostel..it was as if I was at home again, well kind of...When I first landed in Cairns I was all excited, looking forward to this great start of my travels down the east coast...this all kind of changed when I stepped outside and saw the huge mass of clouds in the sky...these wern't nice fluffy white clouds either...this followed with my hostel being disgusting (caravella77), to go have a shower I had to run out past the pool in the rain, and the actual cubicle had a part of the window missing, forcing me to shower with bent knees as not to expose myself! I then went and got my manual for my 5 day PADI diving course, and went for my diving medical...which to finish my fantastic day off...I failed... I had mild asthma when I was 5 and have never had a problem since, and I also failed the test where you have to blow into this tube connected to a machine...so yes, I was not a happy Lucy that day...
Day 2 in Cairns I shoved all the annoyances of the previous day behind me and booked my beautiful Cape Tribulation transport and a whole day of White Water rafting on the Tully river. Man, I loved rafting
Waiting...
Waiting for my bus for the white water rafting along the Esplanade... so much! I was quite nervous at first but then I really got into it and loved every second...I want to do it New Zealand although it will be freezing! You can also do black water rafting in the dark which would be amazing...(Ian, you better do this with me as well!)
When I came back to my new hostel, YHA Esplanade which is wonderful...really homely and a nice smallish size...I was greeted with a face from the past...the past being the very start of my travels, starting in Heathrow Airport across the world to Sydney... Louise, the girl who I originally flew out to Australia with was now in Cairns for a few days before flying home! It was so great to see her again and catch up...lots of reminiscing about the early days of our travels... Last night was actually her last night, so we went out for dinner and then to a bar which had free champagne and lollies from 10pm-midnight. I can't believe how fast 4 months has gone, and Louise is now on her way back home! I really don't like how time goes so fast, I've only got a month and a small
Together again...
Together at the start of our travels, together at the end for Louise's Australian adventure... bit left in Australia! But then my New Zealand adventure does begin...
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louise has a better tan than u xxx