Cairns - 30 May 08 to 4 jun 08

realised a consistent blogging trend... all my posts are 2 months late... this current blogging is for my cairns trip from 30 may 08 to 4 jun 08... the 3 of us (jing, wanyi n mi) went to cairns with darren, max and michelle.... the main purpose is for diving.... n it's quite cool to do it in cairns.... cos u can dive without a license.... the instructor will just gif u some theory lessons on the boat n den down u go with an instructor to about 4 - 5 ppl.... this sounds like a much better deal.... cos u dun haf to learn to do anithing... jus go dwn n the instructor will do all the inflating n deflating for u... den dun haf to panick abt not getting the correct pressure n not being able to go dwn.... n the instructor will hold ur hand as u dive dwn... hahah... okies.. enuff of my luo-suo-ing.... here comes the pix!!!

Day 1
the instructor giving his theory diving lesson to this entire group of newbies... i was trying veri hard to concentrate cos dun wanna die during diving in the ocean... it doesnt sound tt hard though... jus 2 impt things tt we need to remember... or at least ttz why the instructor claims..... (1) remember to breathe; (2) dun come straight up; (3) dun panick!!!... hahah... how hard can tt be.... but u realli haf to be in the water to noe how hard 3 things can be... esp the dun panick one...heheh....

Not before long, i'm in the water!!! it's real tough to plunge ur head in... cos not used to breathing through the mouth.... the 4 of us (jing, were together with some japanese instuctor) took damn long to get everione into the water.... i think he was damn pissed off with us... hahah... cos he jus wanna go in n haf fun.....

din have much pix of us in the water cos everione was in the water so no one to take pix... this photo was taken during the 2nd dive... yup... i had so much fun during the first one tt i wanna go a second time... first one was too short... not shiok enuff... heheh... jing din go a second time so thanks to her, i had this pix....

we took this pix with "da jie" after the dive on our wae back.. look at how dry he is!! haha.. cos he din go for the 2nd dive as well... he din even snorkel... was jus happily slping on the ferry waiting for us.....

grp pix at the esplanade after alighting from the ferry...


saw this cool signboard along the streets after dinner... it's pointing to the various attractions in cairns as well as major cities ard the world... cool!!!!




Day 2

We're on the cruise to Green Island... thr's nothing much thr though... went on some glass boat tour n "trekking" ard the island... did some snorkelling along the beach too... or rather attempted to snorkel cos din haf life jacket n mi din dare to swim out to places whr i cant touch the ground.. hahah... anw after this trip, i realli realli wanna learn swimming....

busy eating on the wae to green island which is our usual favourite activity... haha...

guess wat we are doing... we are trying to sing without moving our shoulders... hahah... someone jus made this comment, saying tt good singers do not move their shoulders when they sing... we are real bo liao right... "pretending" to be good singers....

see wanyi is in my eye!!!

aussie 5 acting cool.... like some advertisment pose again....

i like beaches here in aussie!!

Day 3
We went trekking around to get to the nice nice waterfalls.... this is a veri spontanteous pix... we were walking thru the forest n den all of a sudden darren took out his camera n we all posed.... it's quite a good shot...


this's the josephine falls.... nice but short waterfall....


the 3 sisters with the waterfall... i like this pix.....


this is still at josephine falls... the 2 adventurous saggis walking dwn the stream to take pix...


this's our 2nd stop... the milaa milaa falls... milaa = lots of water.... a rather appropriate name cos this waterfall is indeed much longer than josephine falls.... n the water's veri cold thr too... thus, thr's a polar bear challenge... if u dare jump into the waters n swim to the waterfall area, u can go to the nearby village to collect a "i m a polar bear" badge....

curtain fig tree... looks scaree... like one of the props for those typical ghost movie.....

after all the trekking thru the forest, we went to lake eachim.... nv knew i got take such nice pix... hehhe... but it's cos of the still-ness of the lake... see how nice the clouds reflection is... another one of my fav pix....

darren took a dip in lake eachim while the 3 of us sat at the corner, practising our stone throwing skills... trying to master or at least learn the art of "stone jumping on water surface" throw... after numerous attempts, i finalli manage to get it right once or twice... hahah.... this is how lousee we are.....

this is the pose for the animals tt we represent during the animal game tt we play everinite at the hotel room...

darren - crocodile / max - fish / mich - penguin / mi - starfish / wanyi - shark / jing - jellyfish

this is just a random scenice lookout tt we stopped along our way to the waterfalls... real nice although it's just an unintended stopover / lookout point.... beautiful blue blue sea....

went to the factory of dairy farmers for afternoon coffee break....