Us beside the training pool

Scuba Diving at the Great Barrier Reef!

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June 15th 2007
Today we began our Scuba course, which is what we came to Australia with the dream of doing! We spent the first two days learning in the classroom and in a purpose built swimming pool. This was fun, but nothing compared to the third and fourth days! The course was an open water PADI course involving some fairly technical elements which made sure we weren’t going to make any mistakes under wate ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more