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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 […]
9th November 2019
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.
8th November 2019
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 […]
7th November 2019
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 […]
6th November 2019
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. […]
5th November 2019
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. […]