G'day Everyone...

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Well, we've finally made it to Australia...

and its good to be somewhere where everyone speaks English and there are familiar things around after 3 months away!

We arrived in Cairns last week, and after a few days looking around and deciding where on earth to start with such a huge country, we headed north to Port Douglas - a small town on the coast which is fairly sleepy at the moment as its low tourist season. Its also supposed to be wet season too, but we've luckily only had a couple of really rainy days.

We've spent two days out on the Great Barrier Reef, snorkelling and Scuba Diving and have seen some amazing fish and colourful corals, as well as Giant Turtles, loads of Reef Sharks, huge Tuna and little Clown Anenome Fish (or Nemo's!) We got a great photo of steve holding a Reef Shark, but its too huge to put on the blog at the moment. We'll put it on when we've resized it.
We did 3 dives in different places on the reef and the visibility was really good despite it being the rainy season. Unfortunatley it is also the Jellyfish season - which means that if you want to swim or dive in the sea, you have to wear incredibly sexy lycra all in one teletubby suits. Yum. But better than getting stung by Jellies I suppose. At least at the beach theres a netted enclosure where you can swim, which keeps all the stingers out!

This part of Aus seems to be like America and everywhere insists on serving you huge portions of food you cant possibly eat! The ice creams are also massive and come in every flavour possible - as you can imagine Rozi is in heaven!!! Have to go to the beach and swim to work it off!!!

Hope youre all good - keep in touch,

love
Rozi and Steve
xxx

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Photos

Giant Swimming Lagoon
In Cairns. Best thing there, especially as you cant swim in the sea - its full of Crocs!

Church in Port Douglas
Its pretty and quite old round here.

Mr Cool
Steves very pleased with himself on completing his first open water dive - on the Barrier Reef!

Poseidon
Our boat! Was very cool, with all the latest equipment! A great place for divers.

Eh-Oh!
Teletubbies come out to play! Seriously these suits are just not cool. But necessary!

Comments

[lins]

ooooooh!!!!
aw hun am uber jealous seeing all your piccies this time - it all looks so familiar!!! isn't port douglas just lovely!! they have a really cool market on the grass next to that church on sunday's if you're still around then, twas where i got my pretty sea shell bracelet from!!! and the boat that's next to the one you went on is the one i went out on for my first open water dive!!! ( the haba one) tres jealous. have a wonderful time hun. missing you loads xx

[lil bro kev]

wheres da shark
hi steve sounds like ur havin fun so wheres the shark den? got a girlfriend by the way! love the teletubbies suits ha ha lol ! luv kev xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rite bck xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx