Australia Australia is a dangerous place ...snakes, spiders, crocodiles, jelly fish, shark attacks and also while I was there, fires and torrential flooding.....and by some luck I avoided it all. The plan was to fly into Cairns, travelling down the east coast to Sydney and onto Melbourne five weeks later. Cairns is one of the main stop offs to go diving and snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef and with boats that take 200+ people the water can get a bit crowded. Someone had advised me to continue up North to Port Douglas where I managed to get a much smaller boat of just 20. The coral was amazing and came face to face with a white tip shark which fortunately is smaller than the whites of SA and relatively harmless. Just after I left Cairns
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