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19th November 2019
The first thing we do in the morning is take another shower, hoping to get rid of that rotten egg smell. It only worked a little bit. We head out to this museum type place. It’s like one of the Maori tribe have turned their land into a tourist attraction. Our ticket includes a welcome […]
18th November 2019
The car rental dealership was a half an hour walk from the airport hotel, we got small silver Suzuki. We drive three hours to Rotorua to our Airbnb to drop off our stuff and head to Hell’s Gate. As someone who has seen Old Faithful in Yellowstone and been to several thermal hot springs in […]
17th November 2019
We woke up early and get to the airport 3 hours before a domestic flight so we cannot go in yet BECAUSE ANTOINE IS PARANOID. We get to Sydney with no problem. Their main McDonalds has two levels, the top level is the kitchen and they have this machine that rotates, and the kitchen would […]
16th November 2019
FINALLY A DAY TO RELAX. We find a brunch place to get fruits and smoothies, and a local market with Boba and local art pieces and vegetables. They sell bok choi and white Chinese cabbage at their farmers market, all we have in London are various potatoes and bad avocados. After we get back to […]
15th November 2019
Antoine and I signed up for an adventure dive with Jen because with my PADI license, I can only go up to 18 meters deep, where as I would like to go deeper. One of my options is to get the advanced PADI license like the one Antoine has, or go on an Adventure Dive, […]
14th November 2019
I have the option to do the early morning dive with Freddie and the other German girl or sleep, but since Antoine was doing a morning dive for his class anyways I got up to go with them. We get our gear on and jump into the water, something is wrong with the German girl […]
13th November 2019
This is the big day, I do my first dive in the big ocean water, and we see the Great Barrier Reef. We pack up our stuff and walk the one minute distance to the office. We were early. The van eventually shows up and we hop in, it takes us to a boat. Because […]
12th November 2019
The AirBnb was right next to where the office to the dive company. It is called Diver’s Den. It was a one minute walk, basically 2 doors down. I went to pool and learned her Closed Water Dive skills There were supposed to be four people in my class, one didn’t make it and one […]
11th November 2019
We woke up for a seven hour drive to Cairns, but for some reason Waze tells us it’s 15 hours. The main highway seemed to be shut due to the fires and we would have to go back the way we came for a few hours and go inland for another few hours until we […]
10th November 2019
The next morning we wake up and we wait at a neighborhood sign as instructed by the boat company. A van eventually shows up and picks us up to drive us to the local port. We get on a boat that is ran by Scottish men, it is a supposedly a pirate boat. At first […]