So i know we only posted yesterday but we are, yet again, about to drop off the face of the planet and we thought we would update you with our contineous disaster weekend.
so we arrived in Cairns yesterday to find we had a message from Cairns Dive Centre, the company we booked our tour with. however, when we arrived they were already shut for the night. so we phoned them this morning and......
their boat had broken down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf?!?!?!?!?!?! they gave us some options which we discussed then went down to see them in the shop. eventually we got a full refund but we still had no dive booked. we were not happy.
we went for a walk and Cairns is literally chock-a-block with tour operators so we walked into one and met a lovely lady called Vicki, had a lovely chat with her and we now have a tour booked for tomorrow (when we were ment to go) in a better room AND a discount!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it did cost a little more but i think we will have a better tour.
So off tomorrow!!!!!!!! Soooooo excited!!!!! and for parent that want to know we are diving with Deep sea divers den. So if you dont hear from us within the next 2 weeks assume the boat sunk!!!!!!
Lots of love
Amy and Sarah xxxxxxxxxx
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Paddling in the Desert
My my my, what a past week or 2. yes, i have absolutely no idea what day of the week it is. Since i last wrote we have been on an 11 day tour from Melbourne to Alice Springs. there is no way to tell you everything that happened in the time but i will do my best.
it started with a half hour walk to our pick up point at 6.15 AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeesh. over the next day and a half we went along the Great Ocean Road which was absolutely incredible. we stopped every 10 minutes or so to take pictures of the views and awesome rock formations suchg as the 12 Apostles, or the Sow And Her Suckling Pigs as the Aborigines called them!!!!!!
We saw KOALAS!!!!!!!!!
we also drove our tourguide Chris insane by being obsessed with cheesy songs and dancing along to anything we could!! (think surfing USA and ANY dance moves that go along to it!!! along with the obvious YMCA and las ketchup song!!!)
the next day and half to Adelaide we were in the Grampians wihc involved a whole lot of hiking up maountains in 30 degrees. thats fun let me tell you. our last night we stayed in these little huts in a tiny town called Hall's Gap and there were kangeroos literally in our back garden!!!!! it was amazing. we all loved Hall's Gap and could've stayed ther forever. little did we know but after that was a different tour!!!!!!! the organisation for this trip was fantastic. this involved a free day in Adelaide sop we went to the beach :D!!!!
We got to see the opening ceremony for the Adelaide fringe festival that evening also and it was amazing!!! fireworks off buildings in the centre of the town!!!
the next morning it was up early again to leave for our onward trip at 6.20am to alice springs. We met our tour guide Ilse and were off!! We met some lovely people and ended up continuing our bus aerobics and singing and recurited a few more poeple to the cause!!! We stayed in quorn, i know quorn like the food! but none of the places sold quorn and thought i meant corn!!! oh well we have to educate these australians sometimes!!! We did a few short walks but it was soooooo hot that Ilse decided that we would have to once again be up before sunrise to do our nice long walk up dutchmans stern!!! joy oh joy!! but we made it to the top and it was worth it!!! a kangaroo hopped across the path 2 metres in front of where i was standing!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!
We then had a roadtrip day!!! YAY!!! 10 hours on a bus half full of fun people and the rest of people who really didnt care to join in! oh well amy and i made up for about 10 of them in enthusiasm!!!
We finally arrived in Coober Pedy and had a really fun night out at the underground bar where Aileen (irish girl) managed to chat up some miners and got a free drink out of them!!! Clever girl!!!! The next day we got a lie in!!! only left at 7.20am!!!! to go noodling yes noodling for opals which basically consisted of searching though a pile of rubble for any rocks that might contain a piece of opal and I FOUND ONE!!!!!! amy did too but mine is way cooler!!!!!
on our way out of coober pedy the next day we found out the van was broken so after waiting around in the rain for it to get fixed ( it shouldn't rain in the desert!!!! apart from when you're there Rach!!) we finally set off for our first night of camping!!!!! well it was meant to be camping under the stars but ended up not being so as it was chucking it down!!! ever slept in a tent with bunk beds????? i have!! its weird!!! any way apart from there being a 1 hour time change from heading a bit further north that day was rather uneventful!! except for the mouse in my tent that i saw twice on aileens bed and ended up on mine eating an empty crunchie bar wrapper!!
Once we finally arrived at Uluru (Ayres rock to those of you less educated) it was still raining!!! As a result of the rain about half the group left a day early!!! ( none of the brits though we're all way too hadcore from D of E to go home because of a bit of rain!!!) After they left we walked around the entire of Uluru in the rain, well not walking so much as paddling (Amy paddled in sacred mud) and jumping from tuft to tuft due to the amount of water there! Anyway I'm soooo glad we didnt leave as we got to see the most amazing sunrise the day the tour ended!!!!!!!
In Alice we had a farewell dinner with everyone that made it to the end of the trip and Ilse had a bitch about the people she didin't like!! Quite funny!!
We spent all of next moring in HOSPITAL!!! I'm fine!!! I just managed to get a rash all over my arms, legs, tummy and back!!! I think its the cheap soap at the hostel!!! Anywhoo we arrived safely in Cairns this evening and can't wait to go diving on monday!!!! Great barrier reef here we come!!!!!!
Lots of love Sarah and Amy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
it started with a half hour walk to our pick up point at 6.15 AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeesh. over the next day and a half we went along the Great Ocean Road which was absolutely incredible. we stopped every 10 minutes or so to take pictures of the views and awesome rock formations suchg as the 12 Apostles, or the Sow And Her Suckling Pigs as the Aborigines called them!!!!!!
We saw KOALAS!!!!!!!!!
we also drove our tourguide Chris insane by being obsessed with cheesy songs and dancing along to anything we could!! (think surfing USA and ANY dance moves that go along to it!!! along with the obvious YMCA and las ketchup song!!!)
the next day and half to Adelaide we were in the Grampians wihc involved a whole lot of hiking up maountains in 30 degrees. thats fun let me tell you. our last night we stayed in these little huts in a tiny town called Hall's Gap and there were kangeroos literally in our back garden!!!!! it was amazing. we all loved Hall's Gap and could've stayed ther forever. little did we know but after that was a different tour!!!!!!! the organisation for this trip was fantastic. this involved a free day in Adelaide sop we went to the beach :D!!!!
We got to see the opening ceremony for the Adelaide fringe festival that evening also and it was amazing!!! fireworks off buildings in the centre of the town!!!
the next morning it was up early again to leave for our onward trip at 6.20am to alice springs. We met our tour guide Ilse and were off!! We met some lovely people and ended up continuing our bus aerobics and singing and recurited a few more poeple to the cause!!! We stayed in quorn, i know quorn like the food! but none of the places sold quorn and thought i meant corn!!! oh well we have to educate these australians sometimes!!! We did a few short walks but it was soooooo hot that Ilse decided that we would have to once again be up before sunrise to do our nice long walk up dutchmans stern!!! joy oh joy!! but we made it to the top and it was worth it!!! a kangaroo hopped across the path 2 metres in front of where i was standing!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!
We then had a roadtrip day!!! YAY!!! 10 hours on a bus half full of fun people and the rest of people who really didnt care to join in! oh well amy and i made up for about 10 of them in enthusiasm!!!
We finally arrived in Coober Pedy and had a really fun night out at the underground bar where Aileen (irish girl) managed to chat up some miners and got a free drink out of them!!! Clever girl!!!! The next day we got a lie in!!! only left at 7.20am!!!! to go noodling yes noodling for opals which basically consisted of searching though a pile of rubble for any rocks that might contain a piece of opal and I FOUND ONE!!!!!! amy did too but mine is way cooler!!!!!
on our way out of coober pedy the next day we found out the van was broken so after waiting around in the rain for it to get fixed ( it shouldn't rain in the desert!!!! apart from when you're there Rach!!) we finally set off for our first night of camping!!!!! well it was meant to be camping under the stars but ended up not being so as it was chucking it down!!! ever slept in a tent with bunk beds????? i have!! its weird!!! any way apart from there being a 1 hour time change from heading a bit further north that day was rather uneventful!! except for the mouse in my tent that i saw twice on aileens bed and ended up on mine eating an empty crunchie bar wrapper!!
Once we finally arrived at Uluru (Ayres rock to those of you less educated) it was still raining!!! As a result of the rain about half the group left a day early!!! ( none of the brits though we're all way too hadcore from D of E to go home because of a bit of rain!!!) After they left we walked around the entire of Uluru in the rain, well not walking so much as paddling (Amy paddled in sacred mud) and jumping from tuft to tuft due to the amount of water there! Anyway I'm soooo glad we didnt leave as we got to see the most amazing sunrise the day the tour ended!!!!!!!
In Alice we had a farewell dinner with everyone that made it to the end of the trip and Ilse had a bitch about the people she didin't like!! Quite funny!!
We spent all of next moring in HOSPITAL!!! I'm fine!!! I just managed to get a rash all over my arms, legs, tummy and back!!! I think its the cheap soap at the hostel!!! Anywhoo we arrived safely in Cairns this evening and can't wait to go diving on monday!!!! Great barrier reef here we come!!!!!!
Lots of love Sarah and Amy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| There was also one about not taking cats on hikes!!! these australians are odd!!! |
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| Amy walking/paddling aroung Uluru |
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| Rain at ULURU!!!!! |
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Talking to clouds!
so after just looking at how many people have commented it kinda feels like i'm talking to myself but i can work with that. Currently on day 5 in Melbourne and I realised that in our last blog we didn’t really tell you what Melbourne is like. I like it but Sarah is less enthralled. The architecture is a bizarre mix of really old building terraced to flash new buildings and there are so many parks which are quite oftne really quiet. i guess when you live in paradise it stops being amazing.
i know you cant really tell but it is a penguin!!!!!
Since we last spoke to you we have gone to the docks, which is far cooler than it sounds and St. Kilda which is a beach town/suburb about minutes away from the city centre. When we arrived it was overcast but quickly turned into a scorcher of a day
Lots of love Amy and Sarah
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i know you cant really tell but it is a penguin!!!!!Lots of love Amy and Sarah
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Day 2
Welcome to Melbourne
We arrived at Melbourne airport yesterday at 6(yeesh) in the morning after about 20 hours in the air, thats not including our stopoever in Dubai. apart from far too many hours in the air and not enough sleep that was absolutely fine. since arriving we have wandered around, seen Parliment (which neither of us have seen in England but oh well) and been rained on. one thing i have to say is that when Melbourne does weather it does it well.
So although we arrived at the hostel at about 8am we decided that we might as wel get into the swing of Australian life!!! We were approached by a man on the bridge just outside our hostel who offered us just that! Drinking! at 9AM!!! needless to say we politely refused and backed off feeling a ickle bit worried!! But Melbourne is beautiful and apart from the rain this afternoon the weather has been perfect, so perfect infact that we managed to get sunburt on our first day!! (and we weren't sunbathing like you izzy!!)
Amy has just informed me that full stops do exist and I do now realise how easy it is to tell what I and what amy have written!! Oh well!! I'm now going to go move overboard with the !!! as it is fun!! and i know my housemates will appreciate it!!!
here are some wonderful photos of what we have seen so far. enjoy
lots of love Amy and Sarah!
xxxxxxx
We arrived at Melbourne airport yesterday at 6(yeesh) in the morning after about 20 hours in the air, thats not including our stopoever in Dubai. apart from far too many hours in the air and not enough sleep that was absolutely fine. since arriving we have wandered around, seen Parliment (which neither of us have seen in England but oh well) and been rained on. one thing i have to say is that when Melbourne does weather it does it well.
So although we arrived at the hostel at about 8am we decided that we might as wel get into the swing of Australian life!!! We were approached by a man on the bridge just outside our hostel who offered us just that! Drinking! at 9AM!!! needless to say we politely refused and backed off feeling a ickle bit worried!! But Melbourne is beautiful and apart from the rain this afternoon the weather has been perfect, so perfect infact that we managed to get sunburt on our first day!! (and we weren't sunbathing like you izzy!!)
Amy has just informed me that full stops do exist and I do now realise how easy it is to tell what I and what amy have written!! Oh well!! I'm now going to go move overboard with the !!! as it is fun!! and i know my housemates will appreciate it!!!
here are some wonderful photos of what we have seen so far. enjoy
lots of love Amy and Sarah!
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Planning
Hi All,
so this is nearly a month before we actually leave and I saw many of you this two days ago but this is practically the start of the journey. We are sitting in Sarah's house in London trying to negotiate with people 12 hours ahead. not exactly conducive for efficient planning. so far Sarah has drawn many, many boxes and been just a bit OCD about them, I have drawn up lists, we have booked nearly all of our flights, one of the tours we intend to do and frankly that's about it. it doesn't help that some idiot left the travel guides at home. ooops.
Speak to you all soon when we will have hopefully actually have left the country.
Lots of love
Amy and Sarah
xxxxx
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