Australia and diving

As some of you know, I recently spent 3 weeks in Australia visiting a certain someone while I was on holidays. Yes, I know I go down there far too often but I hope by next year that certain someone will be in Singapore working

Anyways, our main thing to do this visit was to get our diving certificate. May planned it all (I know, shocking since I am usually the one planning our trips so this was a nice change. Quite funny to have the constant emails to double check if it was ok!!)

Best part about our travels was that we got to drive again. I never drive in Singapore so it was nice to hit the roads again and travel for hours through the countryside. It was a gorgeous drive up the Eastern Coast from Sydney to just south of Brisbane to a small town called Coffs Harbour. It is here that we did our diving certificate. We stayed for 4 days, over the Easter holidays and it was packed with backpackers. But the diving was great and awesome to do.

A gorgous town right on the ocean, with a huge bay and a classic wooden pier stretching out into the bay. Gorgeous to climb up the hill and view back into the sunset and cloudy hills in the distant.

And yes, we managed a few pics on the ocean. We spent a few evenings just sitting on the beach, eating food and having some beverages. Really nice people there. May thinks you should buy your house there Daniel!!

We left Coffs on Monday and headed up to north of Brisbane to a place called Redcliffe. May had organised that we go on a dolphin diving expedition. So we loaded onto a big boat and drove out an hour to a small sandy island with a huge dive wreck around it that we snorkled through. Kind of cool.

Best part was the monstrous sand hill that we climbed only for me to race down against a 10 year old gal. I won, letting gravity take its course against my large, rolling frame. We ended up playing with the little girl in the ocean and doing some photo ops. Also, we managed to have her hooked to hang out with us for the hour long boat ride back, doing tough maths questions that stumped May! She finally had a dose of my life and what it is like to converse with the young ones.

This picture is for my father since we stopped at a koala sanctuary on the way back. They had the cute bears (who don't do much) as well as part of the marsupial family (those are kangaroos and wallabees Matthew, in case you didn't know..but I won't tell anyone). But, here is an Emu who vaguely resembles my father.. same feathers as you have Dad??

Here are our diving shots. Finally May made it in and looked like a pro..awesome to see. Too funny of a story that I'm sure some of you will hear about. If we don't bring it up, make sure to ask me and I will tell you of her adventures.

I do happen to look thinner in water, with the tight suit favouring the contours of my body. I know, I know..

On one of our dives, we managed to go into an area with there are commonly Grey Nurse Sharks. It is said that these were almost hunted to extinction because the Auzzies didn't know the difference between them and the Great Whites so they hunted all of them. They are slowly growing back in Marine Sanctuaries like Coffs Harbour. But an eery and amazing feeling to descend on them and see about 12 of them, slowly moving around with flow of the ocean. Incredible

Other than that, not much else here. 2 more months of school until it is time to go and fulfil my calling of completing the house on the land. I know, it won't be done without one of the originals so I will spend my holidays there. I look forward to it