Right, since the last blog, we've headed west, through the outback. Well and truly equipped for beach weather, we spent about 2 weeks freezing our nuts off. Al Gore needs to take a quick trip out this way. its supposed to be roasting but we spent 2 of the coldest weeks in history in the outback oh well. Before we left Cairns, we did our Padi. Great trip. Nothing quite like it. on our first solo dive, we were swimming around this huge coral mountain, only to see this dark grey shape about 20 meters away swimming our way. an 8ft reef shart swam 1 meter away from us, cool feeling. over the next few days we saw all kinds of coral, fish and turtles, not to mention a few more sharks. The night dive
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