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It's been awhile....but we're still alive after having swam in shark waters and battled it out with the crocs:
We currently reside in Airlie Beach...gateway to the whitsundays island. Which is supposed to be on the top of your "to do list" when travelling to Australia. And going to Airlie without going to the whitsundays is comparable to going to Paris and not seeing the Eiffel Tower. Jaz, Espo (Jasmine's Boyfriend Marc)& I leave for a sailboat cruise (24m long, 28 people) tomorrow for 2 days 2 nights. Should be a little tight, but a definite different experience!! Airlie Beach (along with Cairns, the last big city we were in) you cannot swim on the beaches because of crocs and stingers. So these 23 cities have dumped HEAPS (aka alot of) money into a lagoon. (It's like a free Confederation Park for all you Hamiltonians out there!!) You can laze around and swim and play in the lagoon.
Last week we were in Cairns and did 2 seperate day trips: 1)went to the Daintree rainforest (oldest in the world) and saw beautiful amazing plants trees, wicked old vines....really neat! We had to cross a CROCODILE river (via boat ferry)..we were on a bus tour for the day. we also went to cape tribulation which is the greatest place of serenity I have ever seen! It's the only place in the world where Rainforest meets Historical sight (=Great barrier reef). 2) Day 2, we took a boat cruise out to Green Island (these 2 days were spent up in Cairns...google a map!). Green Island exposed us to the GREAT BARRIER REEF where we were able to snorkel and interact with the ocean itself!!!!! Finally...our first time swimming in the ocean!!! Jaz, her cousin Elicia & I splurged and went SEAWALKING to the bottom of the ocean floor! They slapped a wetsuit and water shoes on you (on Green Island), dinghy'd you out to a pontune boat that had a mass hole in the middle of it. They put a 20lb belt on you to weight you down, then as you descended down into the water, they put a 40kg astronaut helmet on just as your shoulders went underwater. The helmet allowed you to breathe underwater without having to use scuba gear (which costs an arm and a leg to do and gives you less then 10 minutes underwater apparently. Plus you need certification). Underwater the photographer would take pictures of you as he squirted a waterbottle of fish food in front of your helmet. The fish came swimming and brushed everywhich direction in front of my face!!!!!!! Thank goodness for cameras!! (once we figure out how to get pictures on an album where everyone can access it, we'lll get'em up! I'm thining July24-25thish. Sorry!!!
Anyways...that's a short blurb because I have 28 seconds left of internet!!
Until the next time....
oxo Nikki & Jazzzy
KEEP YOU STICKS ON THE ICE...(they don't even know what ice is down here...)
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