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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We drive 10 hours between Brisbane and Whitsundays and there is truly nothing in between. We arrive at our AirBnb and find dinner in Arlie beach front, and went to a Chinese restaurant ran by filipino.

Antoine woke us up bright and early for a drive up north for about an hour for a “surprise”.  He refuses to tell me what it is. When we arrive at the port, there are three buildings, and Antoine leads me to one that says “dolphins”. A man asks us if we are there to feed […]

Once again, we wake up at around 5am. Antoine opens the door to go to the bathroom and Mr. Fluffypants runs in again. We just let him. While Mr. Fluffypants stares out the window dramatically, we gather ourselves and head out. We drive for an hour, Antoine planned for a two hour drive as he […]

We woke up at around 5am to drive three hours to our surf lessons in Byron Bay. We get there and wait to get picked up. A white van pulls up in front of us and a quintessential super surfer comes out of the driver seat and says “G’day mates” unironically. His name is David. […]

All I knew what was happening today was that we were going “canyoning”…whatever that meant. We drive about two to three hours inland to the Blue Mountains and stop at a hostel. We are greeted by a man named Aidan. He gets us to sign some forms and goes through the day with our guide. […]

The alarm was supposed to go off at 8am, I was awake by 5am and very very hungry. We try to sleep some more, but it doesn’t work. I decided to look for a breakfast place. Using TripAdvisor, I pick a place called Two Ant Café. It was about a 10 minute walk from where […]